NRF Annual Report 2018

PART A: STRATEGIC OVERVIEW
FIGURE 11: REMUNERATION EXPENDITURE
18%
16%
14%
Remuneration %
12%
10%
8%
6%
4%
2%
0%
National Research
Corporate RISA SAASTA
Facilities
Total NRF
(Incl. SKA)
2013 1.2% 2.6% 0.6% 10.7% 15.1%
2014 1.3% 3.0% 0.7% 12.3% 17.3%
2015 1.0% 2.0% 1.0% 10.0% 14.0%
2016 1.0% 2.3% 0.5% 9.5% 13.3%
2017 1.2% 2.3% 0.6% 11.0% 15.2%
4.2.5 Grant expenditure
Approximately 96% of the grant expenditure is managed by RISA (Figure 12). Within RISA, research funding expenditure
remained stable, with a 5% increase compared to 2016/17. Programme and operating expenditure decreased by 13.6%,
whilst salaries remained stable, and including the annual inflationary adjustment, increased by only 0.2%. The main
contributor to the reduction of RISA operating expenditure is the transfer of the Strategy, Planning and Partnerships
division from RISA to Corporate. RISA managed to contain salaries and operating expenditure to 7% of total grants and
bursaries expenditure.
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