Student Employment Titles - General info & rates

Academic Employment

If your work for the university involves academic research, classroom or laboratory instructional or support duties, tutoring, or other duties that are academic in nature, you should be assigned to a student academic job profile.  See all info for academic employment, here:  student academic employment titles

Undergraduate titles:

Tutor (U0066)

• Salary range:  $9.89/hr to $17.10/hr
• Semi-monthly pay, Tuition Waiver eligible

• Duties:  tutoring duties supervised by faculty member, either for a course or other group.

• Workday remarks: state tutoring duties and faculty name

Undergraduate Assistant (U0070)

• Salary range:  $8.38/hr to $17.00/hr
• Semi-monthly pay, Tuition Waiver eligible

• Duties:  subordinate duties directly related to a course.

• Workday remarks: state course number and faculty name

Undergraduate Research Assistant (U0095)

• Salary range:  $8.38/hr to $21.50/hr
• Semi-monthly pay, Tuition Waiver eligible

• Duties:  academic research duties directly related to student's own field of study under the supervision of a faculty member, and not related to a course.

• Workday remarks: state duties and name of supervisor

Graduate titles:

Academic Assistant (G0065)

• Salary range:  $13.00/hr to $24.00/hr
• Semi-monthly pay, Tuition Waiver eligible

• Duties:  instructional assistance to a faculty member or a technical or professional nature.

• Workday remarks: state course number and faculty name

Assistant Instructor (G0045)

• Salary range:  $20,979 to $63,954
• 9 month rate; Monthly pay, Tuition Waiver eligible, Tuition Reduction Benefit eligible

• Duties:  graduate students serving as auxiliary teaching staff and primarily in lower-division areas.

• Workday remarks: include course and unique number

Graduate Assistant (G0071)

• Salary range:  $11.27/hr to $27.50/hr
• Semi-monthly pay, Tuition Waiver eligible

• Duties:  (1) provide support to units or faculty members where the students’ roles and responsibilities are a direct application of their academic work. (2) clerical and other subordinate functions directly related to a class of a technical or professional nature. In certain circumstances, may be used to facilitate short-term, one-time payments for additional jobs.

• Workday remarks: state course number and faculty name, if applicable

Graduate Research Assistant (G0090)

• Salary range:  $25,368 to $79,032
• 12 month rate; Monthly pay, Tuition Waiver eligible; some are Tuition Reduction Benefit eligible

• Duties:  academic research duties directly related to student's own field of study under the supervision of a faculty member, and not related to a course.

• Workday remarks: state duties and "supervised by [faculty name]"

Teaching Assistant (G0063)

• Salary range:  $17,991 to $34,893
• 9 month rate; Monthly pay, Tuition Waiver eligible, Tuition Reduction Benefit eligible

• Duties:  adjunct duties to regular classroom instruction and must be supervised by a faculty member. Cannot include regular classroom instructional duties.

• Workday remarks: include course and unique number and supervising faculty member name

Tutor (G0064)

• Salary range:  $11.57/hr to $21.00/hr
• Semi-monhtly pay, Tuition Waiver eligible

• Duties:  tutoring duties supervised by faculty member, either for a course or other group.

• Workday remarks: state tutoring duties and faculty name

Non-Academic Employment

Student Non-Academic work generally refers to performing administrative, customer service, or event-planning duties for a university department. This webpage serves as an overview for non-academic work here at The University of Texas at Austin.  See all info for non-academic employment, here: student non-academic employment titles

Non-Affiliated Student Worker (N0079)

• Salary range:  $7.26/hr to $21.00/hr
• Semi-monthly pay

• Duties: non-academic duties only.

• Workday remarks: state duties, faculty or office supervising, and which non-UT university/institution attending

(Undergraduate & Work-Study) - Student Assistant (U0074, W006); Student Associate (U0075, W0010); Senior Student Associate (U0076, W0014)

• U0074 & W006 salary range:  $7.26/hr to $12.50/hr
• U0075 & W0010 salary range:  $7.68/hr to $15.00/hr
• U0076 & W0014 salary range:  $8.84/hr to $18.00/hr
• Semi-monthly pay

• Duties:  non-academic duties only.

• Workday remarks: briefly describe duties

(Graduate) - Student Assistant (G0074); Student Associate (G0075); Senior Student Associate (G0076)

• G0074 salary range:  $7.26/hr to $12.50/hr
• G0075 salary range:  $7.68/hr to $15.00/hr
• G0076 salary range:  $8.84/hr to $18.00/hr
• Semi-monthly pay

• Duties:  non-academic duties only.

• Workday remarks: briefly describe duties

(Undergraduate) Student Technician (U0077, W0017)

• Salary range:  $9.92/hr to $22.00/hr
• Semi-monthly pay

• Duties:  non-academic duties only.

• Workday remarks: briefly describe duties

(Graduate) Student Technician (G0077)

• Salary Range:  $9.92/hr to $22.00/hr
• Semi-monthly pay

• Duties:  non-academic duties only.

• Workday remarks: briefly describe duties

Note:  U = undergrad, G = grad, W = work study

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