What are the salary and benefit amounts for different types of assistantships?
Base salary rates for assistantships are Masters–$1100 per month and Ph.D.–$1400 per month. In some cases students working on specific research projects may have an agreement with a faculty member to have a higher salary. Benefits are provided for all graduate students who are salaried employees. Benefits are not automatically provided for students who work for an hourly wage. If you are writing a graduate student into a grant please see http://www.rpts.tamu.edu/about/forms/documents/fringebenefits.pdf for the appropriate rate that you should charge for student benefits. At this time it is 2% of their salary (e.g., $28/mo for a PhD student).
