In a few weeks we'll be processing applications to NIH with
"modular" budgets.  The instructions on the RFA say the PI need only
list percent effort and the total salary amount, not the salary of each
participant.  This leaves our office with insufficient information to
check the propriety of salary requests; that is, we can obtain real
base salaries  from our personnel offices, but if our computation of the
total varies from the PIs we have no way of knowing whether it's because
a base salary has beeen exaggerated, the salary of a TBN technician is
inflated, etc.  I've been thinking of announcing that, as a part of
routine processing, the PI must submit salary detail on each employee, but
am reluctant to ask for such paperwork just when the sponsor has decided
not to require it.  Does anyone have experience with this?  Am I misreading
NIH's instructions, perhaps?

Peter J. Dolce
Director, Research Support Services
Meharry Medical College
P 615 327 6703
F 615 327 6738
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Peter J. Dolce