Personnel and Salary Support Package rates for funding commencing in 2024.

Personnel Support Package rates

For approved applications for funding commencing in 2024, the following Personnel Support Packages will be used.

Table 1: Personnel Support Packages for funding commencing 2024
Package $ Per annum
PSP1 – Technical support – non-graduate personnel
Note
A PSP1 at 50% may be claimed for postgraduate students supported on NHMRC research grants
60,018
PSP2 – Junior graduate research assistant; or junior graduate nurse, midwife or allied health professional; or junior data manager/ data analyst 74,943
PSP3 – Experienced graduate research assistant/ junior postdoctoral research officer; or experienced graduate nurse, midwife or allied health professional; or experienced data manager/ analyst 82,408
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 97,334
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) 104,797
Note
An annual indexation may be applied to the Personnel Support Packages.

Previous years' package rates

Salary support package rates

For approved applications for funding commencing in 2024, the following salary support packages will be used in the calculations of awarded budgets.

Table 2: Salary Support Packages for funding commencing 2024
Package $ Per annum
Investigator Grants – Leadership Level 1 153,931
Investigator Grants – Leadership Level 2 179,433
Investigator Grants – Leadership Level 3 190,608
Investigator Grants – Emerging Leadership Level 1 82,408
Investigator Grants – Emerging Leadership Level 2 117,238
Practitioner Fellowship Level 1 149,579
Practitioner Fellowship Level 2 179,433
Senior Research Fellow A (SRF A) 139,318
Senior Research Fellow B (SRF B) 153,932
Principal Research Fellow (PRF) 168,548
Senior Principal Research Fellow (SPRF) 190,629
Career Development Package 1 117,239
Career Development Package 2 129,677
Training Support Package 1 82,408
TRIP Fellowship Support Package 151,369
Standard Stipend 29,869
Priority Stipend 38,497
Medical/Dental Stipend 44,471
Note
An annual indexation may be applied to the Salary Support Packages.

Previous years' package rates

Use of all grant funds must comply with the NHMRC Funding Agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and the Administering Institution. See more information on NHMRC Funding Agreement.