How are Sessional Instructors paid?
Unlike Teaching Assistants and Tutor Markers, Sessional Instructors are paid in contact hours. For each hour that Sessional Instructors spend in lecture or tutorial each week, Sessional Instructors are paid $1281. An additional 1.25 contact hours ($1601) is paid for preparation for each course. For example, a Sessional Instructor who lectures three hours a week is assigned 4.25 contact hours; a Sessional Instructor who has a two hour lecture and three tutorials is assigned 6.25 contact hours. No additional preparation time is paid if an SI is teaching both the lecture and tutorials. There is no additional scholarship (as with TAs and TMs) for Sessional Instructors who are also graduate students.
