Sponsored Projects Office, University of California, Berkeley
Salary and Benefits
Proposal budgets may be prepared using these salary and benefits rates and projections;
use actual rates when available.
Salary Rates
Fringe Benefits Projection Rates (effective 9/1/2011)

As components for University benefits may change in price annually, the Office of the President of the University of California no longer provides system-wide estimates for benefit rates and salary projections for use on extramural proposal budgets and for documentation of these proposed costs. Per RPAC Memo Operating Guidance No. 11-01 (February 1, 2011) benefit rates and salary projections are now to be determined and documented at the campus level.

The following composite campus benefit rates have been developed by the Office of Human Resources for the UC Berkeley campus and are now in effect. These rates include UCRP for FY 2012 and FY 2013.

Employee Classification FY 2012 FY 2013
Estimates
Academic (except Specialists) 32% 35%
Academic (Specialists only) 39% 42%
Staff - Career 38% 41%
Mid-Level Benefits (e.g., limited and contract positions, 100% for 3 to 11 months and visiting positions) 13% 13%
Core Benefits (e.g., limited and contract positions, 100% for less than 3 months, 44% to 99% for 3 to 11 months)

 5% 5%
Limited, no benefits 3.5% 3.5%
Postdoctoral 21% 21%
Undergraduate/Graduate Students during academic year 1.3% 1.3%
Undergraduate/Graduate Students during summer 3.5% 3.5%

Note: Vacation, holiday, sick leave pay and other paid absences are included in salaries and wages and are claimed on grants, contracts and other agreements as part of the normal cost for salaries and wages. Separate claims for the costs of these paid absences should not be made.

Historical salary and benefits projection rates
Historical UC Retirement Plan (UCRP) Benefit Charge
Graduate Student Fee and Tuition Remission
Cost Principles for Sponsored Agreements (Contracts and Grants)
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