Sponsored Projects Office, University of California, Berkeley
Salary and Benefits Projection Rates for Proposal Budgets

Summary of UCOP Composite Rates for Employee Benefits (effective 1/1/02)

Proposal budgets may be prepared using these salary and benefits rates and projections; use actual rates when available.
Category
Composite Rate
ACADEMIC  
Academic appointment (50% or more for one year or longer)*
17.0%
Visiting academic appointment
7.3%
Summer appointment (for nine month academic employees) (exclude FICA if not coordinated)
12.7%
STAFF  
Career employee with full benefits
22.0%
Limited career employee (100% appointment for more than 3 but less than 12 months)
10.9%
Casual employee with CORE benefits (plus 6.2% OASDI when applicable)
4.4%
Casual employee without CORE benefits (plus 6.2% OASDI when applicable)
3.5%
STUDENT  
Academic year appointment
1.3%
Summer appointment
3.0%
* includes postdoctoral scholars.

Salary Range Projections
Category
7/1/98  & thereafter
10/1/98
10/1/99 & thereafter
Faculty
Range adjustment 
Merit Increase (normally every 2-3 years)
--
5% if applicable
4.5%
--
2%
--
Other Academics**
Range Adjustment 
Merit Increase (normally every 2-3 years)
--
5% if applicable
2%
--
2%
--
Staff on Step-Based Pay Plans
Range Adjustment 
Merit Increase
--
5% if applicable
2%
--
2%
--
Staff on Merit-Based Pay Plans
Pool Increase
 --
3.5% 
3.5% 
** includes all non-faculty academic appointments, such as professional researchers, research assistants, postgraduate researchers, physical education instructors, acting instructors, lecturers other than those with security of employment, visiting professors, visiting astronomers and agronomists, librarians, specialists, and those with "recalled" in their titles.

These summaries were prepared from:

last revised 12/2005

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