Calculating LSA Faculty Summer Effort
for Entry on the eRPM PAF (for 9 month appointments)
 Always calculate the summer effort based on a possible total of 3 months of effort.
Sample calculations are:
% Effort =
# 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑠
3 𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑠
0.5 summer months =
1 summer months =
*100
0.5 𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑠
3 𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑠
1 𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑠
3 𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑠
1.5 summer months = 50 %
2.0 summer months = 66.7 %
3.0 summer months = 100 %
∗ 100 = 16.7%
∗ 100 = 33.3%
Reporting LSA Faculty Summer Effort in eRPM
• If the effort is the same over the whole life of the project, only one line is needed to show proposed effort.
• If the effort changes from year to year on the project, multiple lines are needed to show it.
(This is accomplished by adding a future appointment. Please feel free to contact the appropriate LSA
Research Admin or Steve Beach in the LSA Dean’s Office if you have questions about this.)
• Enter the budget period dates for the effort in the comments box.