Fringe Benefits 

The Research Foundation manages its fringe benefits through a pool. The pool recognizes defined major classes of employees with associated fringe benefit rates. The rates are subject to negotiation and approval by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as part of the process by which indirect cost rates are determined. The rates are re-evaluated each RF fiscal year (RF fiscal years run from July 1 to June 30).

Fringe benefit costs are extracted from sponsored projects at the appropriate rate applied to salaries paid independent of an employee's eligibility to receive them.