The foundation would also be prohibited from excessive spending on salaries, overhead, and cozy insider deals.
Operational costs include staff and administration salaries, overhead costs (office space, phone, electric, etc)., office supplies, information system and equipment maintenance, and postage.
There are state and local taxes and fees, insurance, salaries and contract pay, overhead, inventory and the like.
Costs of these will be estimated using data on staff salaries, overheads and activity levels.
Medical staff salaries, overheads as well as equipment costs were included in the calculations.
Law firms such as the one in The Invisible, which take on legal-aid cases, are closing because they simply cannot make enough money to pay overheads and salaries.
"All they seem to be doing is allocating their own salary and overhead costs and really doing nothing in the way of charity," he said.
Sometimes they'll give you lab space as long as you can pay the freight--your own salary, plus overhead.
He thought much of the 5 million RMB research funding he was due from the Leading Talent program would go to paying his salary and overhead.
The rule will apply to researchers who already have at least $400,000 per year in research funding not tied to a specific project (not including salary or overhead costs).
