Overhead costs vary by industry. Common examples include the following: Overhead costs, alongside direct costs, the other main category of business expense, determine a company’s profitability.

A federal judge on Wednesday issued a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from slashing National Institutes of Health payments for research overhead, a decision that ...

"It is accordingly vital to ensure that as many funds as possible go towards direct scientific research costs rather than administrative overhead." The National Institutes of Heath, the report ...

researcher and staff salaries and other direct costs. The rest of the funds go to the university to cover overhead and administrative costs, also known as "indirect costs." Those cover not only ...

Capping ‘indirect funds’ for researchers at 15% is a good start at curtailing the administrative bloat.

Direct costs fund project-specific research needs like equipment, supplies, salaries and travel. Indirect costs, on the other hand, help cover overhead expenses like maintaining laboratories ...