Salaries and Wages on Grants

It is the policy of Concordia College that grant project personnel seek maximum allowable compensation from the grant for their work on the sponsored program. Full-time faculty members may apply for released time from their regular teaching load and will be compensated from the grant in direct proportion to the released time approved. Pursuant to the requirements of OMB Circular A-21, faculty paid under a sponsored agreement will be required to complete and sign a salary certification verifying the time expended and proportionate salary received. All grant compensation will be based on the individual faculty member's regular compensation for the continuous period which constitutes his/her Concordia College contract salary, and will be calculated at the base salary rate. If appropriate, a program investigator may be compensated as a percent of effort by filling out the Time and Effort Form, i.e., compensated in direct proportion to the percent of effort to be devoted to the grant funded program. For example if a principal investigator will be devoting 20% of his/her time working in the funded program their compensation will be calculated on the basis of 20% of their contract salary. Regardless of the basis of the compensation under no circumstances will charges to sponsored agreements exceed the proportionate share of the base salary for that period. Normally, compensation from grant funding may not be used to augment the total salary or salary rate of faculty members during the period covered by the term of the faculty appointment.


Under rare circumstances a faculty member may wish to apply for funding over and above his/her base contract salary. This will only be considered if (1) the request is consistent with the funder's guidelines, and (2) the activities within the funded program for which compensation is being sought are not part of the normal and expected contractual responsibilities, activities and obligations. In such a case the specific written approval of the program sponsor will be required prior to the compensation being allowed by the college.

Concerning summer salary, an individual seeking compensation for their work on a sponsored program during the summer months will be reimbursed at a monthly rate not in excess of the base salary divided by the number of months for which the base salary is paid, i.e., a faculty member be on a ten (10) month contract will receive compensation calculated on the basis of 1/9th of the contract salary for each of the months of June and July.

Each semester, employees receiving compensation from a sponsored program will be required to sign a Time and Effort Form verifying that the work was performed and also verifying the hours, time and effort expended under the program.

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