<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Wim, My guess is that most universities would use salary only as a basis to figure an hourly rate, but I don't know that for sure.  There's also a danger in doing calculations like this because having to figure hourly rates seems to put our work in the clerical category rather than the professional category which is always salaried. One interesting factoid:  a person making a million dollars a year gets paid $500/hour; someone making a billion gets $500,000/hour. Richard West     Wimblees@aol.com wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>In a message dated 5/30/02 9:09:14 AM Central Daylight Time, rwest1@unl.edu writes: The Maintenance cost is a very interesting thing. I am curious what others have to say about this subject. Richard said. " <blockquote TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">200 hours X $________/hour X 15 years"</blockquote> How do I figure out the my hourly rate? Here is something of interest. I just got a Staff Member Benefits Statement. It has all the usual stuff about my salary, employment date, etc. But on the second page is a list of all the benefits the school pays over and above my salary, including health and life insurance, workman's comp, retirement, etc. The total is almost a forth of what I make at the university. So when it comes to putting down the "hourly rate," it is not just the rate I get paid per hour, but the additional cost of my employment. Comments? Wim      </blockquote> </html>