Sven-

You should do the second way you suggest below.  Level is based on years of experience Day 1, lasts 12 months, and only increases on the renewal anniversary of the appt.

Heather Daniels
UW-Madison

On 07/26/11, Sven Davisson   wrote:
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> Our office is beginning to assist with preparing the budgets for individual NIH fellowship applications (F32, etc). I have a simple budget question: do we pro-rate the post doc’s stipend
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