L&S Standard Rates for Short-term Staff and Student Assistants
This documents lists minimum base rates for short-term instructional and student assistant appointments and in the College of Letters and Science.
Short-term Staff (Academic Staff titles only)
Any rate changes are effective in the fall semester (e.g., summer appointments in 2021 will follow the academic year 2020-21 rates).
| Title | Current C-Basis Rate |
| Associate Lecturer | $42,124 |
| Lecturer (no prefix) | $49,440 |
| Senior Lecturer | $54,385 |
| Assistant Faculty Associate | $43,127 |
| Associate Faculty Associate | $49,658 |
| Faculty Associate | $54,623 |
| Faculty Assistant | $40,140 |
| Professor Emeritus | $54,385 |
Student Assistants
The following are College-specific rates. For campus minima and other student assistant titles, refer to campus OHR or the Grad School's website.
| SA Title | Current C-Basis Rates |
| Teaching Assistant | $41,000 or $45,100 |
| Lecturer (SA) | $45,000 or $49,500 |
| Undergraduate Assistant | $40,140 |
Calculating Gross Salary
To calculate gross salary, use the campus 'Funding Layout Assistance Tool' (FLOAT), available on OHR's Payroll Toolkit.
Appointment letters include the biweekly salary amount. This amount is calculated by taking the full-time academic year rate, divided by 19.5, multiplied by the appointment percentage:
Example: 33.4% Lecturer (SA) with the full-time rate of $45,000:
45,000 / 19.5 * .334 = $770.77
Contacts for L&S Administration
- L&S Teaching & Learning Administration
- Shirin Malekpour, Associate Dean for Teaching & Learning (shirin.malekpour@wisc.edu)
- Amanda Mahr, Academic Administration Coordinator (amanda.mahr@wisc.edu)
- L&S Human Resources
- Laura Fisk, HR manager for STS/SA Appointments (laura.fisk@wisc.edu)
- STS/SA HR Rep: https://kb.wisc.edu/ls/60443