<p>$30k per year? Not likely unless it’s one of the very tippy-top schools. Stipends are poverty-level, or close to it.</p>
<p>Use this Web site for some idea of where things are at: <a href=“http://chronicle.com/stats/stipends/[/url]”>http://chronicle.com/stats/stipends/</a></p>
<p>For example, the average stipend for a history teaching assistant at Duke University is $11,000 per academic year, and a research assistant $18,000 per academic year.</p>
<p>UCLA and UChicago pay around $19,000.</p>