Step 4: Labor

If salaries will be paid from the new award fund, submit a labor change ePAF to have all future salaries (and salary encumbrances) moved to the new award fund. Submit labor redistributions to move prior month(s) labor expenses to the new award fund (if necessary). User guides for ePAF and labor redistributions can be found on the Budget website.

Labor is very important and must be applied to each grant fund exactly how it was budgeted with the sponsor, which should correlate to the time that was spent on the project by that person. For most grants, effort must be certified. This will document that effort/labor budgeted on the grant and salary expenditures posted to the grant align with the percent of effort spent on the grant project by those paid on the grant.

1. If % of effort doesn't match salary posted to the award fund, labor redistributions must be processed to correct.

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