Though many grantee institutions benchmark research fellow salary levels in
the biomedical and behavioral sciences to NRSA stipend tables, the two are not
directly linked (in NIH's eyes).  I would expect, therefore, that individual
NIH Institutes generally will make no provisions for potential fellow salary
increases for existing awards.

The result will be that individual PIs will necessarily either 1) rebudget
from other cost categories, 2) reduce the effort (and presumably the workload)
to match the dollars available, or 3) ask their home institution to contribute
the differential.  Jim

James R. Randolph
Senior Associate Director, DRDA
The University of Michigan
3003 South State, Room 1044
Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1274
phone: 734-764-7242
fax: 734-764-8510
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>From: Research Administration Discussion List on Mon, Nov 23, 1998 4:44 PM
>Subject: NIH postdoc stipend increases
>To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
>
>Hi-
>
>For those of you with NIH NRSA awards (fellowships and training grants),
>the recent (19 Nov) hefty increases in postdoc stipends is likely good
>news.  God knows we need to keep postdocs happy and healthy.
>
>However, the new guidelines apply only to those individuals actually
>supported by NRSA awards.  Many postdocs are funded from a principal
>investigator's research grant (e.g. R01).  Many institutions pay this
>latter group of non-NRSA postdocs according to the NRSA scale.
>
>Now the problem: while the stipends for NRSA budgets will be adjusted
>administratively to meet the new guidelines, it is unlikely that this will
>be done for all NIH grants which pay postdocs.
>
>1) Does anyone know whether the institutes have adapted in the past to
>these kind of changes?
>
>2) Any ideas on how PIs might find the extra funds to cover these increases?
>
>Charlie Hathaway
>
>
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