diff --git a/bin/submitjob b/bin/submitjob
index d99a2fc6501c11e814f315f53e57e71d64d6b190..7755800cb345c3e83fe75cc0361aa082186f263a 100755
--- a/bin/submitjob
+++ b/bin/submitjob
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ slurm_submit() {
 cat << EOF | ${LOCALCMD}
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 #SBATCH --array=${JOB_COUNT}
-#SBATCH --ntasks=${CORES}
+#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=${CORES}
 #SBATCH -N ${NODES}
 #SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=${MEM}M
 #SBATCH -o ${LOGFILE}