Hi, everyone. I was recently asked this by one of my departments and thought I’d throw the question out to the group to see how others are handling this situation.

 

If you are submitting a 5 year R01, and you use the current salary cap as the base salary for the investigators who meet or exceed the cap, are you keeping that base salary level for them flat (i.e. using this year’s level of $191,300 as an example) for all 5 years or are you adding a 3% increment to that level for each of the other years, assuming the cap will increase each year? I usually recommend to my folks that we keep the level flat because we can’t guarantee that the salary cap will increase each year or by what level, but I started thinking about that again and wondered what the rest of you think/do.

 

Thanks!

Vicki

 

Vicki Krell, CRA

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