Personnel and Salary Support Packages

2025 Personnel and Salary Support Package rates to be applied to grants in 2025 and used in applications for funding commencing in 2026.

Personnel Support Package rates

For 2025 applications approved for funding commencing in 2026, the following Personnel Support Packages will be used.

**Table 1:** Personnel Support Packages to be applied to grants in 2025 and used in applications for funding commencing in 2026
Package	$ Per annum
PSP1 – Technical support – non-graduate personnel	63,859
PSP2 – Junior graduate research assistant; or junior graduate nurse, midwife or allied health professional; or junior data manager/ data analyst	79,739
PSP3 – Experienced graduate research assistant/ junior postdoctoral research officer; or experienced graduate nurse, midwife or allied health professional; or experienced data manager/ analyst Note A PSP3 at 50% may be claimed for postgraduate students supported on NHMRC research grants	87,681
PSP4 – Experienced postdoctoral researcher (that is, a researcher who may be considered as a named investigator on the research application and/or approaching the Investigator Grant Emerging Leadership 2 level or equivalent), or clinician without specialist qualifications	103,562
PSP5 – Senior experienced postdoctoral researcher (that is, a researcher who would normally be considered as a named investigator on the research application and is more than 10yrs post-doctoral and/or would be expected to have applied for or held an NHMRC CDF, Investigator Grant Emerging Leadership 2 or equivalent)	111,503

Note: An annual indexation may be applied to the Personnel Support Packages.

For approved applications for funding commencing between 2014 and 2025, see Previous Personnel Support Package rates.

For applications approved for funding commencing in 2026, the following salary support packages will be used in the calculations of awarded budgets.

**Table 2:** Salary Support Packages to be applied to grants in 2025 and used in applications submitted in 2025
Package	$ Per annum
Investigator Grants – Leadership Level 1	163,781
Investigator Grants – Leadership Level 2	190,915
Investigator Grants – Leadership Level 3	202,805
Investigator Grants – Emerging Leadership Level 1	87,681
Investigator Grants – Emerging Leadership Level 2	124,740
Training Support Package 1	87,681
Postgraduate Scholarship Stipend	52,050

For approved applications for funding commencing between 2017 and 2025, see Previous Salary Support Package rates.

Use of all grant funds must comply with the relevant Funding Agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and the NHMRC Administering Institution or MRFF Eligible Organisation.