{"id":167,"date":"2025-10-03T10:57:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T17:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gradschool.wsu.edu\/finance\/?page_id=167"},"modified":"2025-11-04T01:35:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T09:35:50","slug":"minimum-hourly-wage-equivalency-for-graduate-student-employees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gradschool.wsu.edu\/finance\/minimum-hourly-wage-equivalency-for-graduate-student-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum Hourly Wage Equivalency for Graduate Student Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Academic Student Employees are paid hourly rates based on their working hours at half of the full-time equivalent (FTE). In the state of Washington, a full-time job for 12 months is equivalent to 2,088 hours per year, which is equal to 174 hours per month. Since Academic Student Employees work at a .5 FTE, their work hours are half of this full-time monthly total, resulting in 87 hours per month (174 divided by 2). The monthly salary figures provided in this context are based on these 87 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emailwsu.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/t\/gradschool.documentshare\/EYUstpORdp1FvEXRTMcS2_YBB-hr7v-KMTPbrsUwe2-2tA?e=fnIrG5\">Assistantship Salary Table (Full)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-2\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-2\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1 odd\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\"><\/th><th colspan=\"3\" class=\"column-2\">Admitted to Masters Program<\/th><th class=\"column-5\"><\/th><th colspan=\"3\" class=\"column-6\">Admitted to Doctoral Program<\/th><th class=\"column-9\"><\/th><th colspan=\"3\" class=\"column-10\">Doctoral Candidate<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Location<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Step<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Salary<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Hourly<\/td><td rowspan=\"5\" class=\"column-5\"><\/td><td class=\"column-6\">Step<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">Salary<\/td><td class=\"column-8\">Hourly<\/td><td rowspan=\"5\" class=\"column-9\"><\/td><td class=\"column-10\">Step<\/td><td class=\"column-11\">Salary<\/td><td class=\"column-12\">Hourly<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Pullman<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">59<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">$2,388.00<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">$27.45<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">64<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">$2,510.00<\/td><td class=\"column-8\">$28.85<\/td><td class=\"column-10\">69<\/td><td class=\"column-11\">$2,638.00<\/td><td class=\"column-12\">$30.32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Spokane, Prosser, Tri-Cities, Wenatchee<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">66<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">$2,560.00<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">$29.43<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">71<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">$2,690.50<\/td><td class=\"column-8\">$30.93<\/td><td class=\"column-10\">76<\/td><td class=\"column-11\">$2,830.00<\/td><td class=\"column-12\">$32.53<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Mt. 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