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    It's paid out of the general budget, there's no way to answer that question. Commented Jun 9, 2017 at 20:02
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    At any rate, in a math department it would be extremely unusual for grant income to come anywhere close to paying for faculty salaries. But it's still complicated. Some of our faculty (lecturers) are hired to teach, and they do a lot of teaching, but if we only had lecturers the experience in upper level major classes would be quite different. Graduate students do a lot of teaching, but need to have an advisor who is primarily a researcher. Research lends prestige which helps in attracting students and in fundraising. It's all hard to tease apart. Commented Jun 9, 2017 at 20:15
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    Math is a bit weird here in that we're technically a science, but don't have the same equipment budget as a typical science department and so are bringing in way less grant overhead. In some ways we're more like a Spanish department surviving on teaching a ton of intro level classes for students who aren't our majors. But you can't have strong science departments without a strong math department, so to some extent science grant income is playing a role. And we do bring in some grant income. Commented Jun 9, 2017 at 20:29
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    On the more extreme end, I have 0% teaching obligations. Commented Jun 9, 2017 at 23:47
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    @NoahSnyder While true, this doesn't really doesn't go far to answer the question. Do you think when your department hires they give as much consideration to to a candidate's service and teaching combined as they do to their research? Certainly that isn't my experience, and that imbalance does require some explanation. Commented Jun 11, 2017 at 0:23