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Do TAs and RAs get paid at your law school?

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:16 pm
by IAFG
If so, how much? Do TAs and RAs get the same rate? Can you get a tuition waiver?

Re: Do TAs and RAs get paid at your law school?

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:07 pm
by Detrox
1. Yes 2. $12/hr for RAs (TA's just get course credit) 3. No idea.

Re: Do TAs and RAs get paid at your law school?

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:18 pm
by Renzo
Detrox wrote:1. Yes 2. $12/hr for RAs (TA's just get course credit) 3. No idea.
Same, same, and definitely not.

Re: Do TAs and RAs get paid at your law school?

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:19 pm
by 03121202698008
Depends. For RAs, some pay and some give credit. No idea on the $ but not terribly much. From what I understand, you are paid by the prof out of their grant...not the school. We have no TAs that I know of.

Re: Do TAs and RAs get paid at your law school?

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:22 pm
by patrickd139
Here, RA=nominal wage, TA=course credit

Re: Do TAs and RAs get paid at your law school?

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:16 pm
by de5igual
I'm an RA...being paid 11.25/hr

Re: Do TAs and RAs get paid at your law school?

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:24 pm
by hdivschool
Total compensation for RAs is $28/hr ($13/hr in salary + 15/hr tuition remission)
For TAs it's about $77/hr ($34/hr in salary + $43/hr tuition remission)

Re: Do TAs and RAs get paid at your law school?

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:25 pm
by deebs
Worked as an RA for $8/hr lol, no idea about TA's

Re: Do TAs and RAs get paid at your law school?

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:27 pm
by Sauer Grapes
hdivschool wrote:Total compensation for RAs is $28/hr ($13/hr in salary + 15/hr tuition remission)
For TAs it's about $77/hr ($34/hr in salary + $43/hr tuition remission)
Is that per credit hour of the class they TA, or they get paid that per hour they work? So if a TA works 10 hours in a week, they'll get $340 in salary and $430 off their tuition?

Re: Do TAs and RAs get paid at your law school?

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:31 pm
by bernaldiaz
What does RA stand for? Obviously not Resident Assistant.

Re: Do TAs and RAs get paid at your law school?

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:34 pm
by hdivschool
Sauer Grapes wrote:
hdivschool wrote:Total compensation for RAs is $28/hr ($13/hr in salary + 15/hr tuition remission)
For TAs it's about $77/hr ($34/hr in salary + $43/hr tuition remission)
Is that per credit hour of the class they TA, or they get paid that per hour they work? So if a TA works 10 hours in a week, they'll get $340 in salary and $430 off their tuition?
It's per hour of work. There may be some cap on the hours per week, though; the handout lists two example stubs, one with 6hrs/wk and the other with 8hrs/wk.

Re: Do TAs and RAs get paid at your law school?

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:13 pm
by dabomb75
bernaldiaz wrote:What does RA stand for? Obviously not Resident Assistant.
research assistant

Re: Do TAs and RAs get paid at your law school?

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 12:41 am
by Sauer Grapes
hdivschool wrote:
Sauer Grapes wrote:
hdivschool wrote:Total compensation for RAs is $28/hr ($13/hr in salary + 15/hr tuition remission)
For TAs it's about $77/hr ($34/hr in salary + $43/hr tuition remission)
Is that per credit hour of the class they TA, or they get paid that per hour they work? So if a TA works 10 hours in a week, they'll get $340 in salary and $430 off their tuition?
It's per hour of work. There may be some cap on the hours per week, though; the handout lists two example stubs, one with 6hrs/wk and the other with 8hrs/wk.
Wow... can you share what school that is?

Re: Do TAs and RAs get paid at your law school?

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 12:53 am
by IAFG
It's hard for me to drum up a compelling case for why the school should give us a partial tuition waiver, but damn, it just seems like schools should.

Re: Do TAs and RAs get paid at your law school?

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 1:02 am
by de5igual
Sauer Grapes wrote:
hdivschool wrote:
Sauer Grapes wrote:
hdivschool wrote:Total compensation for RAs is $28/hr ($13/hr in salary + 15/hr tuition remission)
For TAs it's about $77/hr ($34/hr in salary + $43/hr tuition remission)
Is that per credit hour of the class they TA, or they get paid that per hour they work? So if a TA works 10 hours in a week, they'll get $340 in salary and $430 off their tuition?
It's per hour of work. There may be some cap on the hours per week, though; the handout lists two example stubs, one with 6hrs/wk and the other with 8hrs/wk.
Wow... can you share what school that is?
+1

77/hr x hypothetical 40 hour week = $3080

never realized TAs made more than biglaw associates on an hourly basis (significantly more since this is using a standard 40 hour workweek)

Re: Do TAs and RAs get paid at your law school?

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 1:34 am
by dailygrind
It's 11 an hour at UVa.

Re: Do TAs and RAs get paid at your law school?

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 1:48 am
by IAFG
lol we're getting so fucked

Re: Do TAs and RAs get paid at your law school?

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:37 am
by patrickd139
IAFG wrote:lol we're getting so fucked
This. My $8/hr with no tuition reduction is looking miserable right now.

Re: Do TAs and RAs get paid at your law school?

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:32 pm
by hdivschool
Sauer Grapes wrote:
hdivschool wrote:
Sauer Grapes wrote:
hdivschool wrote:Total compensation for RAs is $28/hr ($13/hr in salary + 15/hr tuition remission)
For TAs it's about $77/hr ($34/hr in salary + $43/hr tuition remission)
Is that per credit hour of the class they TA, or they get paid that per hour they work? So if a TA works 10 hours in a week, they'll get $340 in salary and $430 off their tuition?
It's per hour of work. There may be some cap on the hours per week, though; the handout lists two example stubs, one with 6hrs/wk and the other with 8hrs/wk.
Wow... can you share what school that is?
Stanford.

Re: Do TAs and RAs get paid at your law school?

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:34 pm
by IAFG
hdivschool wrote:
Sauer Grapes wrote: Wow... can you share what school that is?
Stanford.
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Re: Do TAs and RAs get paid at your law school?

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:40 pm
by moandersen
I think RAs and TAs get paid the same at 8/hour. We ballin at WF.

Re: Do TAs and RAs get paid at your law school?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 6:36 pm
by Sauer Grapes
IAFG wrote:
hdivschool wrote:
Sauer Grapes wrote: Wow... can you share what school that is?
Stanford.
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Think about how much beer money that would have been for us this semester! Like 3.4 times what we got, plus they got money off of their tuition.

Re: Do TAs and RAs get paid at your law school?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 8:26 pm
by NotCreative
$16/hr for RA here

Re: Do TAs and RAs get paid at your law school?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 8:59 pm
by MTal
Detrox wrote:1. Yes 2. $12/hr for RAs (TA's just get course credit) 3. No idea.
LOL at being "paid" $12/hour while forking over 60k/year in cost of attendence.

Re: Do TAs and RAs get paid at your law school?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 10:12 pm
by PirateCap'n
moandersen wrote:I think RAs and TAs get paid the same at 8/hour. We ballin at WF.
It's the same. We're not exactly taking the market by storm.