New Features
SAGE Budget: Preliminary Benefit Rates are now available to users of SAGE Budget.
- GIM 3 has been updated to display both current benefit rates and preliminary benefit rates for future budgeting as they become available.
- SAGE Budget will use the correct rate based on the period start date and whether the user has opted to use current and preliminary rates or current-only rates.
- Budget preparers can use a global update feature to update their budgets quickly when preliminary rates become available each year.
- The period entry page for a given person will indicate whether the rate being used is current or preliminary for that period.
An ASTRA information page will display instead of an error message at sign in.
- When you attempt to log in to SAGE without the required ASTRA role, SAGE will display a list of people in your unit who can authorize access to SAGE. You able to choose an authorizer and send him or her a message to request access to SAGE.
Designated Subcontract Actions (SA) attachments are viewable in SAGE.
- Subcontracts Actions (SA) attachments will now be viewable in the Related Documents section of the Attached Documents page if the SA is in Active or Closed-Out status and if the type of attachment is not a To/From Communication.
EH&S has a new compliance question: “Will the project involve scientific diving?”
- Anyone diving under the University of Washington’s auspices must have current certification as a University of Washington Scientific Diver and adhere to the standards set forth in the UW’s Diving Safety Manual. EH&S will contact you to assist in meeting Diving Safety Program requirements prior to diving.
When you create a budget, you are automatically named the role of Budget Preparer. Approvers may contact you during the review process, and OSP and/or GCA staff following the awarding of funds.
- To select a different preparer, click the Change the Budget Preparer? link beneath the preparer information to open the personnel chooser.
- Enter the Name or UW NetID for the person you want to add, and click Search.
- Click on the desired person’s name to select her or him and return to the Access page.
When you choose to change yourself as the preparer, a warning message will appear. If the change you are making removes your last access to this item, once you confirm the change, the tasklist will display.

The information displayed for the preparer is:
- Name and Employee ID
- Selected unit: the name and organization code number of the contact’s unit for the appointment selected. This is automatically displayed by SAGE.
- Title: the contact’s title from the directory. This field is editable.
- Phone: the contact’s title from the directory. This field is editable.
- Email: the contact’s title from the directory. This field is editable.
Fixes
SAGE Budget: When a line item is deleted from the budget worksheet, the page refreshes to reflect the change. However, if a budget has Targets & Limits enabled, the F&A values displayed are not immediately updated. The next time the page is refreshed, the displayed F&A values will be correct, and the Total Project Costs will include the F&A change.
The Student Aid (08-00) line item links directly to personnel setup in the (01) Salaries and Wages section of the budget. You may use it for specific personnel sub-object codes (33, 34, 43, 44, 51-54, 91-94).
This page presents the information for all of the periods for the chosen person. The values are from the Salary and Wages section.
The information displayed here is not directly editable.
- Quarterly Tuition Rate displays the value for this person, such as: Standard Campus.
- Number of Quarters displays the value entered for the particular period when the person was added in the Salary and Wages section.
- Increase % (percent) is the percentage rate that applies to the Quarterly Tuition Rate.
- Total Tuition is the dollar amount of the tuition.