When budgeting for an AY appointment, base the calculation for each month’s effort on 1/9 of the AY salary expected to be in effect for the periods (years, normally) of the funded project. The same formula is used to calculate summer (SU) salary (not to be confused with the more rare “supplemental” salary.) One month of summer salary should be based on 1/9 of the prior AY salary. One week of summer salary is 1/13th of what the full summer salary would be (or 1/14 th for those years in which the summer calendar is declared by Academic Affairs to be 14 weeks long.)

Start with the individual’s current, official Banner HR salary. Then augment the salary by inflation factors for all future project years. [To arrive at a current salary during years when there is a pending American Association of University Professors (AAUP) contract, first inflate the Banner HR salary for UNH faculty subject to collective bargaining (presently, just tenured and tenure-track faculty) by the published OSR inflation factors for each unresolved contract year.] When using the electronic Proposal Budget Tool, note that the first-year salary will be inflated automatically, based on any inflation factor identified in the set up in the Tool macro. (Refer to OSR’s Website for inflation factors.)

National Science Foundation (NSF) policy limits faculty salary support to a maximum of two months for all NSF projects the faculty member works on during each UNH fiscal accounting period (7/1 – 6/30). Proposed exceptions to this policy must be justified in the budget narrative.