2024 Personnel and Salary Support Package rates for funding commencing in 2025.

Personnel Support Package rates

For 2024 applications approved for funding commencing in 2025, the following Personnel Support Packages will be used.

Table 1: Personnel Support Packages for funding commencing 2025
Package $ Per annum
PSP1 – Technical support – non-graduate personnel 61,819
PSP2 – Junior graduate research assistant; or junior graduate nurse, midwife or allied health professional; or junior data manager/ data analyst 77,191
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
84,880
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 100,254
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) 107,941
Note
An annual indexation may be applied to the Personnel Support Packages.

For approved applications for funding commencing between 2014 and 2024, see Previous Personnel Support Package rates.

Salary support package rates

For applications approved for funding commencing in 2025, the following salary support packages will be used in the calculations of awarded budgets.

Table 2: Salary Support Packages for funding commencing 2025
Package $ Per annum
Investigator Grants – Leadership Level 1 158,549
Investigator Grants – Leadership Level 2 184,816
Investigator Grants – Leadership Level 3 196,326
Investigator Grants – Emerging Leadership Level 1 84,880
Investigator Grants – Emerging Leadership Level 2 120,755
Practitioner Fellowship Level 1 154,066
Practitioner Fellowship Level 2 184,816
Senior Research Fellow A (SRF A) 143,498
Senior Research Fellow B (SRF B) 158,550
Principal Research Fellow (PRF) 173,604
Senior Principal Research Fellow (SPRF) 196,348
Training Support Package 1 84,880
Standard Stipend 50,000
Priority Stipend 50,000
Medical/Dental Stipend 50,000
Note
An annual indexation may be applied to the Salary Support Packages.

For approved applications for funding commencing between 2017 and 2024, 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.