{"id":11112,"date":"2026-06-04T23:12:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T06:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/?page_id=11112"},"modified":"2026-07-29T09:15:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:15:44","slug":"guideline-21-requesting-excess-compensation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/resources\/guideline-21-requesting-excess-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Requesting Excess Compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wsu-spacing-after--medium\">ORSO Guideline 21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wsu-spacing-after--medium\">Revised May 15, 2018 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wsu-spacing-after--xxmedium\"><strong>SUBJECT<\/strong>: Guidelines for Approving Excess Compensation Requests for Sponsored Projects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>If a faculty member&#8217;s wishes to request excess compensation above their base<br>salary in a sponsored project proposal, the faculty member must submit a memo,<br>prior to proposal submission, to the Provost Office requesting approval. The<br>request must substantiate the need for excess compensation based on the<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecfr.gov\/cgi-bin\/text-idx?SID=0d0280746cf1448b00914922b881128d&amp;mc=true&amp;node=pt2.1.200&amp;rgn=div5#se2.1.200_1430\">Uniform Guidance 200.430<\/a>, Compensation-personal services (h)(3) and (h)(4)<br>sections. This request must be routed and approved by the faculty member&#8217;s<br>Chair and Dean concurring that these duties are in addition to their regular<br>departmental load (teaching, research, and public service) and across<br>departmental lines.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If approved by the Provost, then the request must be clearly spelled out in the<br>sponsored project proposal, routed through the normal process to ORSO (with<br>Provost approval attached), and subsequently approved by the Sponsor prior to<br>payment of any excess compensation paid on sponsored project funds.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If a request for excess compensation is made after the award, step 1 must still<br>be followed and a separate request to the Sponsor asking for approval must be<br>initiated and routed through ORSO. ORSO will counter-sign the request, upon<br>approval from the Provost, and submit the request to the Sponsor. Sponsor<br>approval must be received prior to any payment of any excess compensation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Normally excess compensation, from sponsored program funds, should be<br>administered via a faculty time-card.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><em>For reference, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/documents\/2018\/02\/guideline-21.pdf\/\">original PDF<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORSO Guideline 21 Revised May 15, 2018 SUBJECT: Guidelines for Approving Excess Compensation Requests for Sponsored Projects: For reference, see the original PDF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46859,"featured_media":0,"parent":10570,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_wsuwp_accessibility_report":null},"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11112"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11128,"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11112\/revisions\/11128"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11112"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=11112"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.wsu.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=11112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}