Especially once we're talking about staff. Keeping a $100,000 scientific software developer on staff, at 10% hit rates (not out of the ordinary for the NIH), m

Especially once we're talking about staff. Keeping a $100,000 scientific software developer on staff, at 10% hit rates (not out of the ordinary for the NIH), means writing a million dollars of grants per year. And if one of them is successful, that salary is 40% of the total budget for a non-modular R01.