diff --git a/bin/submitjob b/bin/submitjob
index 2d7749779fb539a85c1fda6ee9dd4b0922260295..ef7f45e8ba33992f1bf6cdd702a52349d93d6a4b 100755
--- a/bin/submitjob
+++ b/bin/submitjob
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ MEM="4"  # 4 GB by default
 MEMALL="$MEM"
 ACTIVE="100"
 QUEUE=""
+PREEMPT="normal"
 TARGET=""
 FEATURES=""
 EMAIL=""
@@ -66,6 +67,7 @@ usage() {
     echo >&2 "                     for less than 1G/job use fractionals such as 0.1 (100M/job)"
     echo >&2 "    -a --active    = limit number of simultaneously active jobs. Defaults to ${ACTIVE}"
     echo >&2 "    -q --queue     = which queue to use. Uses cluster's default if unspecified"
+    echo >&2 "  * -p --preempt   = specify preemption level (aka QoS) (SLURM). Defaults to ${PREEMPT}"
     echo >&2 "  * -t --target    = restricts to running on the given host(s) [comma separated] (SGE)"
     echo >&2 "  * -F --features  = request specific resources to constrain your jobs (SLURM)"
     echo >&2 "    -l --logfile   = filename to use as stdout/stderr of each job. Defaults to ${LOGFILE}"
@@ -236,6 +238,7 @@ cat << EOF | ${LOCALCMD}
 #SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=${MEM}M
 #SBATCH --output=${LOGFILE}
 #SBATCH --job-name=${NAME}
+#SBATCH --qos=${PREEMPT}
 ${BANG_BEGIN}
 ${BANG_QUEUE}
 ${BANG_EMAIL}
@@ -312,7 +315,7 @@ EOF
 
 }
 
-ARG_PARSE="getopt -o s:n:c:N:m:a:q:t:F:l:e:E:w:b:d:fh -l system:,name:,cores:,nodes:,mem:,active:,queue:,target:,features:,logfile:,email:,emailwhen:,waitfor:,begin:,debug:,fatal,help -n $0 --"
+ARG_PARSE="getopt -o s:n:c:N:m:a:q:p:t:F:l:e:E:w:b:d:fh -l system:,name:,cores:,nodes:,mem:,active:,queue:,preempt:,target:,features:,logfile:,email:,emailwhen:,waitfor:,begin:,debug:,fatal,help -n $0 --"
 
 # We process arguments twice to handle any argument parsing error:
 ARG_ERROR=$($ARG_PARSE "$@" 2>&1 1>/dev/null)
@@ -369,6 +372,11 @@ while true; do
             QUEUE="$1"
             shift
             ;;
+        -p|--preempt)
+            shift
+            PREEMPT="$1"
+            shift
+            ;;
         -t|--target)
             shift
             TARGET="$1"