Before you Begin
All Teaching Assistants (except PhD students* and EMBA TAs) must be entered by the faculty or faculty support for the course in order to begin the payroll process. Once entered, you will also receive access to the TA Training Module on Canvas. If you do not see your TA position on your Student Employment Dashboard three weeks into the semester, please contact AASL immediately.
*PhD Students should contact the SOM PhD Registrar. Much of the information below, including salary and payment will be different for PhD students.
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Welcome to Yale SOM's TA resources page. The links and documents provided here will assist in your preparation for serving as a TA both by affirming our policies and procedures, and by sharing insights and tools generated by your peers.
Please remember that all TAs must complete a TA training module on Canvas and attend a mandatory training session.
According to University policy, students may not work more than 19 hours per week for all Yale jobs combined. This 19-hour weekly maximum applies to all positions at the University within and outside of SOM. Because of this policy, SOM students may not work as a TA for more than two classes at any given time. This includes full-semester and half-semester classes. TAs must attest they are in compliance with this policy as must all other students who have a combination of paid employment roles at Yale.
Please contact AASL immediately for any questions.
Most Recently Updated Resources (Fall 2024)
FAQs
- Students may not work more than 19 hours per week for all Yale jobs combined (see box above).
- Students may not TA a class they are enrolled in for credit.
- Faculty or Faculty Support enters TAs and their weekly hours. TAs do not enter themselves.
- The historic enrollment and/or seats allotted in the course auction determines the number of weekly TA hours a class has
- Half-semester electives with enrollments under 30 are allocated a TA for 7.5 hours per week. As enrollments increase above 30 students, allocated TA hours increase linearly at the rate of one weekly TA hour for every four students above 30. For example, a half-semester course with 40 students will be eligible for 10 hours of TA time per week rather than 7.5.
- Post-docs can be hired as TAs
- All TAs will be paid the same hourly wage (derived from the L33 wage structure) for the duration of the course (14 weeks for full-semester courses, 7 for half-semester). TAs for full semester classes are members of the Local 33 union and are paid $5,535 for 10 hours per week according to the L33 contract. TAs for half semester classes are paid $39.5357/hour as derived from the L33 wage structure. This payment is a stipend based off of X weekly hours over the 7 or 14 weeks of the course.
- The number of weekly hours is an average of weekly hours worked throughout the duration of the course. If a TA works more or fewer hours than what they were hired for in any given week, that is fine as long as it balances out over the weeks of the course.
- PhD TAs processed through Teaching Fellow System (TFS) must be registered through Beth Ann Bretter
- >> PhDs at SOM are only allowed to work 10 hours per week. In their 6th year PhDs are allowed to work 20 hours per week.
- >> PhDs at SOM are only allowed to work one assignment at a time. In their 6th year PhDs are allowed to work two assignments at a time.
- Non-Yale TA hires take longer to process due to background checks
- External hires are the only ones who need to fill out a timesheet
Thank you for committing to this critical role at our school; your involvement and effort will have a tremendous impact on the program and our learning community.
If you have any questions regarding TA'ing at Yale SOM or about the resources included on this page, please contact Jessie Marchant and Sage Fortune.
Materials from previous sessions
- Administrative Presentation- Fall 2023
- Student Presentation with Samanta Cubias '24 -Fall 2023