Graduate Employees Organization -- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign / Salary

From CGEU

XIV. Stipends

Effective Fall ’03 through Summer ’04, the minimum stipend level for assistants shall be $11,518.00 for a half-time, 9-month assistant. Also, effective Fall ’03 through Summer ’04, the minimum percent increase for continuing assistants shall be 3.0%.

Effective Year 2 (academic year 2004-2005), the minimum stipend level for assistants shall be $11,864.00 for a half-time, 9-month assistant. Also, the minimum percent increase for continuing assistants shall be 3%.

Effective Year 3 (academic year 2005-2006), the increase to the minimum stipend level for assistants shall be $12,220.00 for a half-time, 9-month assistant. Also, the minimum percent increase for continuing assistants shall be 3% or the campus’s salary program for non-represented graduate assistants, whichever is greater.

Appointments of different duration or percentage shall be figured proportionally. The parties agree that the assistant’s appointing unit may pay above the minimum stipend and minimum percent increment for continuing assistant appointments, and that this amount may vary from unit to unit.