At 08:12 AM 4/26/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Colleagues,
>
>I need some feedback on how you treat the estimating vs accumulating and
>reporting elements of fringe benefits in your DS-2.   Specifically, do
>you allow for an estimate using a fixed rate even though you know, with
>precision, based upon the effort of the employee budgeted, how much the
>fringe will be?   For example, if you know that the variable components
>of Retirement, OASI and Workers Compensation will be, let's say 16% and
>that health insurance is $3000 per year, do you use a fixed rate of,
>let's say 26% to budget (which is what an average salary of 40K would
>justify) or do you apply the 16% and add the pro-rata portion of the
>health insurance based on the portion of salary requested for the subject
>employee?
>
>Do you have a web site that illustrates your practices?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Matt
>
>Matt Ronning
>Assistant Vice Chancellor
>Research Administration
>North Carolina State University
>1 Leazer Hall - Lower Level
>Campus Box 7514
>Raleigh, NC 27695-7514
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>919-515-7200 - Main Line
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>xxxxxx@ncsu.edu - e-mail
>
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