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Salary for a Graduate Teaching Assistant

Graduate teaching assistants assist senior teaching staff and professors at colleges and universities. Their assistance frees up professors to do more research and to teach more classes. Their salaries may include benefits that the college or university offers in addition to a stipend.

  1. Responsibilities

    • Graduate teaching assistants are responsible for helping faculty members, professional staff members and department chairpersons in performing a variety of tasks related to teaching. A teaching assistant is enrolled in a graduate program at the college or university for which he works, and he may assist by teaching lower-level classes, grading exams, creating teaching materials or proctoring exams. Others may have other duties unrelated to teaching, such as conducting research.

    National

    • As of December 2010, graduate teaching assistants earn a median salary of about $27,800 per year. Those in the ninetieth percentile for salary earn about $46,800 annually. The lowest tenth percentile earns about $15,800 per year, according to a study conducted by Career Overview.

    States

    • Pay Scale, a salary survey site, reports that graduate teaching assistants in California can earn between about $16,800 and $23,260 per year. Teaching assistants in Pennsylvania earn about $17,000 to $26,500 per year. A teaching assistant in Texas has one of the lowest salary ranges, between about $12,000 and $16,900.

    Cities

    • A graduate teaching assistant in Chicago has a salary range of only about $10,500 to $20,300, according to Pay Scale. In Washington, D.C., the range climbs to between about $14,500 and $19,220. Corvallis, Oregon pays in the range of about $19,200 to $22,915 for graduate teaching assistants.

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