Educational institutions are under OMB A-21 and report salaries on a percent of effort basis, not on labor hours, for salaried employees (generally, but not always, faculty, researchers, administrators etc.). Waged employees paid on an hourly rate (usually mechanics, custodians etc.) can report based on labor hours. It would depend on whether the position is paid on a salaried or waged basis. A salaried employee should not have his/her pay divided by 40 hours a week and calculated as an hourly wage because it isn't. We do have sponsors (particularly State agencies) tell us to do this and we continually explain that a salaried employee doesn't work on an hourly rate, doesn't get overtime, and doesn't necessarily work only 40 hours a week.

At 04:27 PM 7/14/2006 -0400, you wrote:

Gwen,
On the contracts for which MUSC has applied (generally NIH), although the RFP indicates hourly charging of salaries, we have submitted proposals with budgets using percent effort and have been funded.
Susan
-- 
Susan A. Greene, CRA, Grants & Contracts Administrator, 
Medical University of South Carolina, Research & Sponsored Programs, 
19 Hagood Ave., Suite 606 (express), Mailbox 250808 (U.S. Postal), 
Charleston, SC  29425-0808 (express, use, 29425), PH: 
843-792-2040, FX:  843-792-6447
Gwen Gennaro wrote:

Happy Friday to all!

For those contracts requiring direct charging by the hour, what processes do you have in place to make this work? How do you modify your effort reporting to accommodate this? Or do you not accept contracts with this requirement?

Thanks for your wisdom.

-gwen

Gwen Logan Gennaro
Director
Office of Sponsored Programs
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway
P.O. Box 7150
Colorado Springs, CO 80933-7150
Phone: 719.262.3153
Fax: 719.262.3706

====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================

====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================

====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================