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All staff rates have been recalculated and increased for
2015. There are two categories of staff hourly rate with
‘Expert’ set at NOK 950 and ‘Junior Expert’ set at NOK
750. The average increase in staff hourly rate between
2014 and 2015 is 9.9%. The project overhead rate on
‘Travel and Other Expenses’ has also increased from 13%
to 15% during the same period.
The principle of fixed consultants who have been charged
close to full overheads like ordinary staff is replaced by a
fixed mark up of 30% on all subcontractors. Exceptions are
made for GEF and a few other projects, where there is no
mark-up for partners’ funding. All subcontracts are based on
either partnering or tendering.
Figure 4 shows how the Programmes create their share
of the total Contribution Margin of MNOK 17.2 to cover
costs for admin hours, fixed overhead costs (admin) and
the budgeted surplus for 2015. This amount consists
of contributions from staff overheads (MNOK 13.4),
subcontractor mark ups (MNOK 2.7, travel overheads
(MNOK 0.5) and other expenses overheads (MNOK 0.6).
Communi-‐
ca+ons
Polar and
Mountain
Environments
Environmental
Crime
Transboundary
Waters
Blue Carbon
Green
Economy
Marine Spa+al
Planning
State of
Environment
Repor+ng
Marine and
Coastal
Resources
Contribu+on margin Other Expenses
8
73
260
170
23
31
4
15
30
Contribu+on margin Travel
-‐
89
162
26
39
20
29
70
59
Contribu+on margin Subcontractors
41
585
1 291
479
-‐
23
3
167
133
Contribu+on margin Staff
785
2 700
1 917
1 542
1 678
963
948
1 482
1 335
-‐
500
1 000
1 500
2 000
2 500
3 000
3 500
4 000
Break Down of the Programmes part of the overall MNOK 17.2 ContribuAon Margin
(KNOK)
Figure 4: Programme contribution margin
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