Not usually. Grants usually pay for release time to
permit faculty to pursue research and sponsored
projects. Normally you may not earn more than 100% of
your annual salary. The amount of money the grant pays
you will be deducted from your college salary. An
exception
is if you work on the grant during the summer. You
may collect up to 2 or 3 months of your salary during
that time, in addition to the 100% you collected on your
9 or 10 month contract. (OMB A-21 J-10, d.1) Salary and
wage increases must conform to the practices and
policies of the institution.
Though OMB A-21 J10 d(1)
says that charges for salary may not “exceed the
proportionate share of the base salary for that period,”
it also contains a provision for paying faculty on an
overload basis. J10a states “These costs (salaries and
fringe) are allowable to the extent that the total
compensation to the individual employees conforms to the
established policies of the institution, consistently
applied, and provided that the charges for work
performed directly on sponsored agreements and for other
work allocable as F&A costs are determined and supported
as provided below. A-21 C2(a, b, c) states that costs
must be reasonable, given consistent treatment, and
conform to any limitations or exclusions in these
principles or in the sponsored agreement as to the types
or amounts of cost items.”
Thus, if the additional
salary conforms to the established policies of the
institution, are allowable, consistently applied, apply
directly to the sponsored agreement, is determined to be
overload or “incidental work”, and approved by the
sponsoring agency in writing, it may be possible to
receive grant money as extra income.
