Will Grad fringes be grandparented (9/12/04)?
No, Grandparenting was created to protect budgets from the effect widely varying salaries. For example, a technician earning $25,000 has an SI fringe rate of 58%, where a faculty member earning $150,000 has an SI fringe rate of 23.6%. Projects with large amounts of salaries at either end of the salary scale could be significantly advantaged or disadvantaged if the budget that wasn’t budgeted under SI. Since Grad salaries don’t vary to this degree, their fringes under SI are a flat dollar amount grant-parenting shouldn’t be necessary.
