When a funding agency has a published rate that differs from the federal indirect (F&A) cost rate, the funding agency’s rate will be used. In these cases, the funding agency may allow some costs ...

Costs of labor can be categorized into two main categories, direct (production) and indirect (non-production) cost of labor. Direct costs include wages for the employees that produce a product ...

Harvard’s indirect cost rate — the percent of federal funding that covers administrative costs of research — is currently 69 percent, the largest of any Ivy League school.