Graduate assistantship stipend minimums and rates by program/department (FY21)
Graduate Assistantship Appointment Process for the 2021 fiscal year
Programs (with approval from their school/college) were required to determine and submit their FY21 assistantship rates to the Graduate School by December 6, 2019. A PDF of the FY21 rates is available here.
Campus minimum stipends for 2020-21
Minimum stipend rates for 50 percent graduate assistantship appointments for 2020-21:
Teaching assistantship
Academic: $20,500
Lecturer Student Assistant
Academic: $22,500
Project assistantship
Academic: $20,500
Annual: $25,056
Research assistantship
Academic: $20,304
Annual: $24,816
PA grader/reader
Hourly rate: $21.57
Effective July 1, 2020, for annual and August 17, 2020 for academic-year appointments.