The salary starts with your maximum approved salary, and ends with what select at that amount or less if you choose to not accept the maximum salary.  The annual amount is then monthlitized for the goal.

If you are in a fixed-term program, the monthlitized amount is multiplied by the number of months in your program.

We'll start by saying that Reliant has different administrative fees for different programs.   The amount of the administrative fee in the support goal will in fact more than the base amount.  This because the goal needs to account for the fee itself.

This type of calculation is called a geometric series. The fee is added to the goal, which in turn means a little more funds need to be raised, which makes the goal a tiny bit higher, which requires even a tiny bit more etc. It theoretically runs on infinitely, but as you go further the amounts get smaller and smaller up until you reach a negligible amount being added.  In our case, we can stop when rounding to the nearest cent doesn't affect the amount. Here's an example with an adminstrative fee of 10% and an amount of $10,000 for easy math. 

Credit card fees exist to cover the costs charged by Reliant's payment processor for transactions involving credit cards.