Mike, 100% is the max that anyone can work against anything - regardless of it being 40 hours or 60 hours - it is a percentage not an hourly rate. If the consulting is inter departmental, then they should have been on the proposal at their usual base salary and a specified percentage. If they were not in the proposal for a dollar amount, but they did have an percentage of effort, then that amount of effort needs to be cost shared (voluntary committed cost sharing) . If nothing was requested for them at proposal time, then you might need to contact your program officer to do a change in budget, if you are planning on paying them against the award. If they are working over the summer they still should be paid the same rate (based on how your institution pays summer salary to academic appointments) I have not seen folks getting more than their base salary in situations of inter departmental 'consulting' - either folks are part of the original proposal at their institutional base salary or they are consultants. It sounds like you have a large amount of effort involved ( at least large enough that the person involved wants to be paid above and beyond their base rate) and it may not have been accounted for at the time of submission... -sbh "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through the experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved" - Helen Keller Sandy Brenner Hill, MPM, CRA President SRA Allegheny Chapter Manager, Business and Personnel Administration Biomedical Engineering & Bone Tissue Engineering Center Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue, Doherty Hall 2100 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 +1 412-268-3444 mobile +1 412-760-0984 fax +1 412-268-1173 -----Original Message----- From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On Behalf Of Julie Edgerton Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 11:23 AM To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] Inter departmental consulting and extra compensation Hi Mike, From my recollection, we can't write in effort above 100%...as in 110%. If the salary paid by the university is above the NIH cap, this is a little different and the department will usually cost-share the difference between what appears on the NIH grant and the salary amount they have listed for the faculty member. Can someone else weigh in on this to be sure? Thanks. Julie Edgerton Associate Director, Finance & Administration Department of Surgery Div. of Plastic Surgery Div. of Multi-Organ Transplantation Stanford University 770 Welch Rd., Suite 400 M/C 5715 Stanford, CA 94304 Tel.: 650-725-6597 Fax: 650-725-6605 Cell: 650-892-7124 Email: xxxxxx@stanford.edu -----Original Message----- From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On Behalf Of Mike Gilles Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 7:44 AM To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org Subject: [RESADM-L] Inter departmental consulting and extra compensation OMB circular A-21, section 10d(1) addresses the issue of faculty compensation in excess of 100% effort. Near the end of that section it states: However, in unusual cases where consultation is across departmental lines or involves separate or remote operation, and the work performed by consultant is in addition to his regular departmental load, any charges for such work representing extra compensation above base salary are allowable provided that such consulting arrangements are specifically provided for in the agreement or approved in writing from the sponsoring agency. There are two issues here; one, can a faculty member be paid more than 100% of his salary under any circumstances and; two, can a faculty member who is consulting "across departmental lines" as stated in 10d(1) be paid for that consulting at a rate higher than a rate calculated on his base rate? Namely can he be paid a reasonable consulting rate, which may very well be above his normal salary? And lastly is this a completely different issue during the summer (non-academic) time? Can he/she be paid in excess of an already full summer supported salary based on his/her academic base salary. Mike Michael P. 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