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

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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

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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. Gilles
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Michigan Technological University
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