A PI should use the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Summer Appointment Spreadsheet if all of the following are true:
- they plan to charge summer salary to an NIH award,
- their Institute Base Salary is above the NIH salary cap, and
- they choose not to use or do not have sufficient discretionary funds to cover the gap between their salary and the NIH salary cap.
If a PI chooses to use a mix of NIH and other funding but will not cover the total gap between salary cap and salary, reach out to nih-cap@mit.edu for more instructions. All other appointments should be created in the summer appointment application on Atlas as usual.