At least in my SOM-based department, one’s general status is supposedly correlated with the amount of indirect costs they bring in. It looks like I’m currently capped at 4 desks for my personnel, and it’s not clear if it’s worth trying to expand here. Regardless, this is apparently the directs / indirects space I’m operating in with my current setup.
![](https://www.dropbox.com/s/a2y46yin6349lir/NIH_grant_revenue.png?raw=1)
What does this come out to in terms of indirect costs generated per month? Here’s the plot based on my budget reports, below:
![](https://www.dropbox.com/s/auv8o9zpldj23uc/Monthly_indirects_generated.png?raw=1)
Ah, the business of SOM-based academic research. Well, I’m nothing if not transparent.