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The base salary for a 50% position (20 hrs. a week)��for AY24/25��is $13,071 per semester. Some departments may pay above this rate based on availability of funds.��Please check with your home department regarding exact salary.

Graduate Student Appointment Definitions

Graduate Assistants: The term graduate assistant is used generically to cover all 4 types of graduate assistants: general graduate assistants, teaching assistants, graduate part-time instructors and research assistants.

Graduate Assistant (GA):��Graduate students who have assignments within the department but are not directly involved in instruction; these appointments are often administrative in nature.

Teaching Assistant (TA):��Graduate students who supervise and lead quiz sections, discussion sections, recitations or laboratory sections, serve as class assistants, or perform comparable activities. Each TA must be under the guidance of a particular professor(s) designated by the department chair or his/her delegate.��TAs are not placed in overall charge of courses.

Graduate Part-Time Instructor (GPTI):��Graduate students who must have master's degree or equivalent, and have demonstrated competence in classroom teaching.��GPTIs generally are given full responsibility for an undergraduate class and designated as the instructor of record.��Their activities may include preparing the course syllabus, instructing their class, holding office hours, determining of grades, etc.

Research Assistant (RA):��Graduate students assisting with and performing research, writing up results of experiments, presenting findings at conferences, etc.

Information for students appointed as TAs, GAs, RAs, and GPTIs

• Graduate student appointees must be enrolled at 91��������as full-time, degree seeking graduate students each semester, with no grade of “incomplete” in any course (with the exception of thesis or dissertation hours), and with at least a B (3.0) grade point average. In many cases, if a student is enrolled for less than 3 credit hours they may be subject to mandatory��������ܳ��پ��DzԲ�.
• A student enrolled in a professional program is not eligible to hold an appointment, unless they are also enrolled in a��traditional graduate degree program.
• Full-time status information may be found on the��Enrollment Verification Grid.
• The Academic Year (AY) begins with the first day of fall classes and ends with spring commencement. View current and future dates on the��.
• Appointees are paid on a monthly basis, on the last working day of each month. Students who are on academic year appointments will receive the first paycheck on the last working day in August and the last paycheck on the last working day of May. Both August and May paychecks are approximately ½ month’s salary. Students employed for fall semester receive the first paycheck on the last working day of August and the last paycheck on the last working day of December. Students employed for the spring semester receive the first paycheck on the last working day of January and the last paycheck on the last working day of May.
• All students on graduate student assistant appointments of 20% or greater will receive full coverage of mandatory student fees. Exact amount of fees are determined by enrollment level and graduate status.
• The percentage of appointment must be equated to the number of hours the graduate student is expected to work. For example, a student who is appointed for 50% time cannot be expected to work more than 20 hours per week. If assigned as a TA, these 20 hours must include all duties necessary for the completion of the student's teaching assignment, i.e., office hours, in-class time, grading, and preparation time.
• Graduate students may not work over 50% time (20 hrs. /week) during the academic year. In limited cases, students may over the 50% limit with their advisor's approval.
• A department may require RAs to work during semester breaks. However, the department should notify the student as part of the terms of appointment if it intends to do so.
• Graduate student appointees are ineligible for paid vacation leave. A student may make personal arrangements with the department for such leave without pay if needed. Appointees receive all legal university holidays as paid leave as well as��sick leave�����Ի�/�ǰ���.
• All students on graduate student assistant appointments of 20% or greater who enroll in the student health insurance program receive a subsidy of approximately 90% of the cost of the insurance which is automatically applied to the student's account.��In addition, dental insurance is provided at no cost to the student.��Graduate Assistants are responsible for paying the remainder of the cost of student health insurance.
• Graduate students on qualifying appointments may be eligible for��paid parental leave�����Ի�/�ǰ� .
• All students on graduate appointments of at least 15% who work a minimum of 12 weeks in a semester receive tuition coverage as part of their compensation package. The amount of tuition coverage* will be calculated based on the percent time of the appointment:

• All domestic non-resident graduate students (including permanent residents) must obtain Colorado in-state tuition classification prior to the sta