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Facts & Rates

Facts & Rates

All those important numbers, codes, rates, and facts needed for your proposal, in one easy place.

Institutional Codes and Numbers

DescriptionNumber/code
Animal Welfare Assurance #A3464-01
CAGE Code1HEX5
Compliance Report Date (Approved by OFCCP)3/2/2000
Congressional DistrictWA-007
DUNS Number605799469
DUNS Number - DoEd only042803536
FICE Code3798
Human Subjects Assurance FWAFWA00006878
View the FWA and Expiration Date
(Search by IORG#0000143, then click on U of Washington.)
IRS / Entity Number91-6001537
UW IRS Tax Determination Letter pdf file format
NAICS Code611310
NRC BiohazardsWN-C001-1
UBI Number178 019 988

More Codes, Numbers, and Certification Details provided by Online Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA)

Employee Benefit Cost Rate

For each dollar paid as salary or wage to an employee, the university incurs associated costs for fringe benefits. These benefits include F.I.C.A., worker's compensation, unemployment compensation, retirement, and health insurance.

Employee Benefit Cost Table - taken from OSP's GIM #3

Salary Titles and Object Codes Campus APL *
Benefits Leave Total
Instruction and Research Faculty 01-10 23.6% 23.6% 16% 39.6%
Auxiliary Teaching 01-20 25.7% -- -- 25.7%
Residents and Chief Residents 01-20E 24.5% -- -- 24.5%
Graduate student appointments 01-30, 01-40 12.9% -- -- 12.9%
Post-Doctoral Trainees 01-50 19.4% -- -- 19.4%
Classified staff 01-60 38.3% 38.3% 24.5% 62.8%
Professional staff 01-70 29.3% 25.9% 25.3% 51.2%
Professional staff (retirement exempt) ** 01-70ER 20.8% -- -- 20.8%
Professional staff (healthcare exempt) ** 01-70EH 15.9% -- -- 15.9%
Professional staff (retirement and healthcare exempt) ** 01-70EB 7.4% -- -- 7.4%
Hourly, Visiting Scientists, and O.T. 01-80 13.0% -- -- 13.0%
Pre-doctoral Fellows and Trainees 01-90 10.3% -- -- 10.3%

* Certain rates for the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) differ from campus rates because they include staff leave accruals.

** Rates with exclusions for healthcare and retirement are for Global Health Department employees who are working abroad and do not have access to certain benefits.

These rates are the effective UW benefit rates, the rates stored in the Financial Accounting System (FAS), and the only rates that can be used in preparing a budget. Though the rates are effective beginning 7/1 of a given year, FAS does not switch to the new rates until 7/16. Budgets prepared from 7/1 to 7/15 using the SAGE Budget Module will continue to pull in the old rates.

Preliminary rates can no longer be used when calculating benefit rates for employees. Information about preliminary rates can still be viewed via the Financial Accounting website.

Facilities and Administrative (F&A) Cost Rates

The F&A rate determines the reimbursement provided to UW for facilities and administrative costs made in support of direct expenditures under grants and contracts awarded by the federal government. The F&A rate was formerly known as the Indirect Cost rate.

Facilities and Administrative Cost Rate Table (Most Federal, State, and Non Fed*) - taken from OSP's GIM 13

Sponsoring Agency Type of Support Rates For Period 07/01/05-06/30/07 Rates For Period 07/01/07-06/30/09 Location
All Federal, State and Non Federal Agencies Not Listed Below Research Grants & Contracts 55.5% MTDC1 56% MTDC On-Campus
26% MTDC 26% MTDC Off-Campus
55.5% MTDC 56% MTDC Harborview Med Ctr
44% MTDC 44% MTDC Primate Ctr Core
75% MTDC2 75% MTDC2 Primate Ctr Other
17% MTDC 17% MTDC APL
25% S&W 25% S&W Research Vessels
66% MTDC 66% MTDC South Lake Union
All Federal, State and Non Federal Agencies Not Listed Below (Including DHHS Training Contracts) Training & Education Service Agreements 58% MTDC 58% MTDC On-Campus
26% MTDC 26% MTDC Off-Campus
DHHS (Training Grants only) Training Grants 8% TDC 8% TDC  
American Cancer Society Research Grants 25% TDC (excl equipt) 25% TDC (excl equipt)  
American Heart Association Research Grants 10% TDC 10% TDC  
The National Foundation (March of Dimes) Training Grants 10% TDC 10% TDC  
Clinical Trials3 (Only Industry Sponsored, fixed price type) Clinical Trials 25% TDC 25% TDC  

*note exceptions, etc.

Official Contacts and Mailing Addresses

Authorized Official

Lynne Chronister, Director, Office of Sponsored Programs

Official who is designated to give assurances, make commitments, and execute such documents on behalf of the University of Washington as may be required by federal and state agencies and other organizations which provide financial assistance to the University. The signature of an authorized official certifies that commitments made on grant proposals or contract agreements can be honored; and ensures that all sponsored agreements conform to federal regulations, agency guidelines, and University policies.

Cognizant Audit Agency and Individual

Department of Health and Human Services
OIG, Office of Audit
Federal Office Building, Room 171
50 United Nations Plaza
San Francisco, CA 94102
Tel.(415) 556-5766

Patrick Smith, (415) 437-7820

Fiscal Officer
Kirsten DeFries, Director of Campus Services, Grant and Contract Accounting
Institutional Mailing Address
University of Washington
4333 Brooklyn Ave NE
Box 359472
Seattle, WA
98195-9472
Payment Address
  • University of Washington
    Grant and Contract Accounting
    12455 Collections Drive
    Chicago, IL 60693
  • Grant & Contract payments should be sent payable to "University of Washington" and addressed to the address above. Payments for clinical trials and other "Pay in Advance" projects should not be sent to this address. They should instead be directed to the PI, research coordinator, or fiscal personnel in the PI's department.

Reports: Audit, Annual, Other

Annual Report of Awards and Expenditures: Office of Research

Annual Report: UW Financial Management

UW Accountability Audit Reports - WA State Auditor's Office

For more extensive information, refer to the State of Washington Single Audit Report, which includes both the financial statements and the expenditures of federal awards by all state agencies.

Salary, Stipend, and Rent Rates

A salary cap is defined as a maximum amount or rate of compensation for personal services that a sponsor will reimburse the University on a sponsored program.

As of February 2009, the only agency that establishes salary caps is the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), which includes the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The NIH salary cap is indexed to a specified Executive Pay Level and changes periodically.

Departments are responsible for ensuring compliance with any salary limitations imposed by sponsors.

Salary, Stipend, and Rent Rates

Tution Rates

The following tuition data is pulled directly from the Office of Planning and Budgeting Tution Rate page.

Tuition and Fees

    Information about Educational Outreach:
    Students who register for fee-based degree courses and other fee-based classes, including all students registering through UW Educational Outreach, pay program or course fees specific to the program in which they enroll. Please contact UWEO Registration at 206.543.2310 or uweoreg@extn.washington.edu for any questions.

The topic of "Tuition and Fees" at a major university is broad and complex. At the University of Washington, we offer programs that are both state subsidized and fee based (offered through Educational Outreach). The tuition schedules presented on this website apply only to state subsidized educational programs. For questions about tuition in state subsidized programs, please email budget@u.washington.edu.

Tuition Schedules

Peer Tuition Comparison

Graduate Tuition Estimates

Tuition and Fee History

Regent's Items Related to Tuition