Student Employee Pay Rates

Tutor (Undergraduate)

All undergraduate student staff in academic support roles would be paid at these rates. The structure for beginning and continuing salaries is as follows:

Starting salary: $14/hr

After four completed semesters of (mostly*) consecutive employment: $15/hr


Tutor (Graduate)

Graduate student tutors in ACTS would be assigned in this job title. The structure for beginning and continuing salaries is as follows:

Starting salary: $TBD/hr

After four completed semesters of (mostly*) consecutive employment: $TBD/hr


Undergraduate Assistant

ACTS Student staff in supervisory/mentoring roles*:  $16.00/hr

SI Student staff in supervisory/mentoring roles*:  $17.00/hr


Graduate Assistant (changed 2021-22)

This designation is reserved for graduate student staff in more traditional graduate assistant roles, such as providing technical and/or instructional assistance to professional staff. 

Tier One: $19/hour

Duties may include:

-Consulting with students

-Marketing SLC programs

-Tracking attendance for SLC programs

-Analyzing data for SLC programs

-Delivering workshops

-Participating in training of student educators

-Observing and giving feedback to student educators

-Facilitating meetings of student educators


Tier Two: $25/hour

In addition to the duties listed above, duties may include:

-Developing content that requires disciplinary expertise in the graduate student’s field of study

-Delivering content that requires disciplinary expertise in the graduate student’s field of study




Student Associate (non-academic title)

Undergraduate student staff in non-academic support roles would be assigned in this job title; Sanger employs only Federal Work Study Award eligible students in this title. The structure for beginning and continuing salaries is as follows:

Starting salary: $14/hr

After four completed semesters of (mostly*) consecutive employment: $15/hr


NOTE: Starting fall 2019, the majority of SLC student educators will be appointed for a full school year. Thus, pay rate increases will only happen between academic years, not between fall and spring.

*Exceptions can be made for one semester of study abroad, research, internship, or work/school balance.