Payroll Policy and Procedure Manual
Section 300: Payment of Graduate Student Employees
Effective: 01/01/2001
Revised: 12/27/2011

Section 300 covers payments made to Graduate Assistants and explains how graduate tuition remission expenses are distributed to department funds.

There are several “Graduate” employee types at OSU.; Only the Teaching and Research Assistants are eligible for tuition remissions.

  1. Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA)
  2. Graduate Research Assistant (GRA)
  3. Clinical Fellows
  4. Postdoctoral Scholar

Graduate assistant students may also work as student employees during summer session and the academic year in addition to their Graduate Assistantship.  If a graduate assistant on less than .49 FTE takes on extra duties, the total assistantship plus salary or hourly pay from any location within Oregon State University shall not exceed the equivalent of .49 FTE for any term.  Doing so jeopardizes the student’s assistantship eligibility.

The following charts provide summaries of data for Graduate Employment positions during the academic year and summer.

Academic Year and/or Summer Session Employment
Pay Type GRA 9 & 12 Month GTA 9 Mo. only Hourly Student Salaried Student Summer Pharmacy Program DVM Clinicians Postdoc Scholar
Position C62XXX C60XXX C50XXX C50XXX C68243 C68172 C67XXX
Suffix 00-Acad.
05-Service		 00-Acad.
05-Service		 00 55 00 00 00
Earn Code GRA GRF GTA GRF RST REG GRX GVM GCF
Acct. Code 10630 10632 10620 10622 10501 10501 10609 10610 10639
Job E-Class XB XB XA XA XB XB XB
Pay Schedule Monthly Monthly Hourly Monthly Monthly Monthly Monthly
Job Form Graduate Graduate Student Student Graduate Graduate Graduate
Requires Enrollment? Yes Yes No No No No No
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