<p>If they do, how much?</p>
<p>Yes they do, I don’t know how much though, it probably depends. It is a good deal more than your typical hourly job, but I am sure it requires a lot more work.</p>
<p>yes, i think its considered a workstudy job and no clue.</p>
<p>I just started as an undergrad TA and I’m getting paid. Still have no clue how much though but it’ll probably be close to minimum wage. But yeah graduate TA’s get paid. My guess is around 12-16 and hour.</p>
<p>Yes, but not much at all. Some get their tuition waived if they teach.</p>
<p>As an undergrad TA, I was paid $1500/semester, which was definitely enough for books, spending money, and some savings.</p>
<p>But I’ve also met people who weren’t paid at all but instead were given academic credit (I think this is relatively rare, though).</p>
<p>I know a lot of graduate students going to school for the sciences that TA and their tuition is waived. At the one school, if your lab group’s PI can’t support to pay your tuition (if he’s having issues getting grants and funding) then you TA for a lab class every semester and your tuition is waived that way. They also get stipends for about $25k a year simply for being in graduate school.</p>
<p>At a major state university, a graduate student TA in science can expect to get an annual stipend of about $25k along with an out-of-state tuition waiver, but might still have to pay in-state tuition. The $25k isn’t payment for being in grad school, it’s a salary for the TA position (they’re not paid hourly). Graduate TA’s are usually given what is called a 20-hour appointment, but it’s understood that they really won’t be working that many hours each week. Making them half-time on paper qualifies them for university health benefits. If the supervising professor has research money, the grad student can go on a research assistantship instead of a teaching assistantship and receive a similar (though usually slightly lower) salary for doing their graduate research. Guidelines for undergraduate TA’s vary by institution, but graduate TA’s are all in the same approximate ballpark.</p>
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<p>At my former undergraduate college, undergraduate TAs are paid by the hour. (Currently at a rate of $9.25, I think. Crappy but a few cents more than any other job on campus.) </p>
<p>Undergraduate math TAs at a private research university in the same city got $5,000 per course. Graduate math TAs at the same university got roughly $10,000, a tuition waiver and health insurance for the exact same job. </p>
<p>In my current department at a different private research university, graduate math TAs get about $7,500 per quarter course plus a tuition waiver and health insurance. Undergraduate TAs get around $15 per hour.</p>
<p>I’m an undergraduate TA for psych 101 and I get academic credit. I wish it was a paycheck. :P</p>
<p>$9 an hour is what I heard for Wash U…As a CS major I can just sit in a lab and do homework when no one’s there though (which I assume is most of the time).</p>
<p>what is a TA?</p>
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<p>Ha! Actually, they usually work more than 20 hours per week.</p>
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<p>This is precisely backwards - RAs are usually paid more than TAs. Research grants tend to be more generous than university funding, plus research is considered “more prestigious” than teaching.</p>
<p>I’m an RA at Indiana University and receive an $11,000 stipend paid monthly from September to April, health insurance and a full tuition/fee waiver (worth about $22,000). My field isn’t very well funded and hence the stipend is comparatively low.</p>
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<p>Short for Teaching Assistant. They, well, assist professors in their teaching responsibilities - running labs, grading papers, proctoring exams, leading review sessions, providing extra tutoring, etc.</p>
<p>At the graduate level, TAs often take sole responsibility for teaching classes - they’re usually known then as Graduate Student Instructors or Associate Instructors.</p>
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<p>I just found out I’m getting paid $10 an hour as an undergrad to sit on my butt and grade stuff and answer questions :P</p>
<p>At the rate I’m going, I’ll be able to pay for modern warfare 3 by November with TA money…take that school!</p>
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<p>In five years of grad school supported mostly by TAing, I never had a teaching assistantship that required more than 20 hours a week on a regular basis. Sometimes it went over, but generally not. More recently, I taught a chem lab at a major university for five years with eleven graduate students working for me every semester, and our 20-hour appointments were actually aimed at 14 hours a week. That includes lab time, grading time, office hour time, and staff meeting time. New TA’s usually worked more than 14 hours a week at the beginning of the semester, but once past the learning curve (and once they became more comfortable grading), 14 hours a week was usually the max.</p>
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<p>When I was in grad school RA’s consistently paid less than TA positions. It may be dependent on the professor and their grant situation, since the amount of funding allowed for salaries is specicifed in each grant. TA requirements and stipends are used by universities to compete for grad students, so at least in the hard sciences, large universities don’t try to low-ball grad students on TA salaries.</p>