I know about this - it’s actually worse and very serious if you underspend. Almost all the higher ups are paid out of budgets based on how much you spend- so t

I know about this - it’s actually worse and very serious if you underspend. Almost all the higher ups are paid out of budgets based on how much you spend- so the supervising agency gets their 15 percent admin fee, your managers are part of the indirect cost pool etc. If you spend 50% of budget it is game over upstairs. And you lose the money at year end, and future allocation is dropped. And all the budgets in long chain up get messed up. Almost nothing gets more attention and priority than this.