Effective immediately, separate cost share (CS) subaccounts are no longer needed to capture the NIH Career (K) award salary limitations independent of the NIH salary cap (INST), which is currently set to $212,100. Both types of NIH K-award salary limitations can now be combined into an INST subaccount.
If an active K-award has a previously established CS subaccount and an INST subaccount, the unit may elect to continue tracking them separately or migrate the salary limitation into the INST subaccount. If the tracking is combined, please be sure to inactivate the CS subaccount via the KFS Subaccount document. This step can be done by units directly and should not need to involve ORA.
For upcoming proposal submissions, only the $1 INST indicator will need to be entered on the Budget Versions tab of the KC Proposal Development Document. There is no longer a need to calculate the difference between the IC limitation for K-awards and the NIH salary cap.
The NIH-specific budget template tab for the K Award Calculations has been updated accordingly and is available for immediate use. The budget template is located on the Forms, Samples & Application Guides page of research.iu.edu.
Please email iuprop@iu.edu if you have any questions.
