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The University of Nebraska at Omaha, Office of Business and Finance has established, by employee subgroup code (ESG code), the following fringe benefit rate *estimates:

ESG Code Rate
Faculty – J,K,L 28.30% of salary
Staff – Managerial/Professional – B 29.32% of salary
Staff – Office/Service – C 32.16% of salary
Administrative – M1, N1 23.67% of salary
Graduate Assistantships See Below
Part-time (less than 0.05 FTE) Employees; including part-time; student workers 7.97% of salary

Graduate assistantship (GA) benefits include tuition, health insurance, and workers compensation (0.32% of salary). Tuition rates are estimated at resident tuition rates times the estimated number of credit hours (min of 12 per year).

Tuition rates include a 3.5% annual increase. **GA health insurance is estimated at the following rates with a 10% annual increase:

07/01/2024 – 06/30/2025 $3,909
07/01/2025 – 06/30/2026 $4,300
07/01/2026 – 06/30/2027 $4,730
07/01/2027 – 06/30/2028 $5,203
07/01/2028 – 06/30/2029 $5,723

*Per our Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement, fringe benefits are specifically identified to each employee and are charged individually as direct costs to sponsored projects. Therefore, a higher or lower rate may be estimated on a case-by-case basis, if justified in the proposal. Benefits include FICA, worker's compensation, unemployment, retirement, and health & life insurance.

**Health insurance rates take into consideration that GAs must pay 21% of the cost of their individual health benefit. This is applicable to all funding sources including but not limited to state and sponsored project accounts.

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