Student Jobs | PhD Students

You can find the designated Coordinator's contact information by going to the Department site and selecting the Faculty & Staff tab.

If you have not already been hired by a Professor and are looking for available roles, you may apply to a listed role on the main Student Jobs page. If you have already been selected as a TF/GF by a Professor or Department, you should select the 'apply for an unlisted position' option on the main Student Jobs page to submit an application. Selection processes vary by Department, so specific questions about the initial hiring process should be directed to the Department coordinator.  

Please login into Student Web Information System (Albert) and follow the link on the left hand navigation bar to “department enrollments".

Please contact your Department Coordinator first.

For questions about showing hiring documents to Human Resources, please contact Pauline Braz at pbraz@stern.nyu.edu

Teaching Fellow Graduate Student/PhD Compensation

Compensation Rates as of 9/1/2025 for AY 2025 - 2026

For historical AY 2024-25 compensation rates, click here. 

TFs for Executive MBA and MS Courses - Student compensation 

Executive MBA and MS courses follow a different schedule than standard UG/MBA courses and work different hours/weeks. You can find comprehensive AY 2025-2026 rates here.

Compensation Rates for MBA/PhD Students (for an 11 week course) as of 9/1/2025 for AY 2025 - 2026

Graduate Fellow Compensation

Graduate students (i.e. Stern MS students, Stern or non-Stern PhDs, non-Stern graduate students) will be paid via payroll based on biweekly timesheets. The hourly rate is $30.00 and the estimated number of weeks and the estimated total compensation is below. Students will need to review the Wasserman Center for Student Employment instructions to complete an "On-Campus Student Employment Application" and send this to Pauline Braz (pbraz@stern.nyu.edu) in Stern Human Resources. Pauline will then send the student instructions on entering hours worked in order to be paid upon submission of biweekly timesheets. Hiring managers will need to send the union appointment letter and card to the student with a cc to Pauline Braz (pbraz@stern.nyu.edu). Managers will also need to approve the biweekly timesheets in Workday. 

Graduate Fellow Compensation - Stern MBA - Graduate Fellow Compensation - Stern MBA - for AY 2025 - 2026 as of 9/1/2025:

Tutor Compensation

Process and Rates
Graduate student/PhD tutors are paid $30/hour. Students will need to review the Wasserman Center for Student Employment instructions to complete an "On-Campus Student Employment Application" and send this to Pauline Braz (pbraz@stern.nyu.edu) in Stern Human Resources. Pauline will then send the student instructions on entering hours worked in order to be paid upon submission of biweekly timesheets. Managers will also need to approve the biweekly timesheets in Workday.

Grader Compensation

Process and Rates
Graduate and PhD Student Graders are paid $30/hour for graders. (Graders assist professors with grading at a minimum of three major assignments per student, not to exceed one hour per student per course.)  Students will need to review the Wasserman Center for Student Employment instructions to complete an "On-Campus Student Employment Application" and send this to Pauline Braz (pbraz@stern.nyu.edu) in Stern Human Resources. Pauline will then send the student instructions on entering hours worked in order to be paid upon submission of biweekly timesheets. Managers will also need to approve the biweekly timesheets in Workday.

Students' employment is at will, which means that students or NYU can terminate employment at any time, with or without cause. NYU can also withdraw or rescind this offer at any time prior to the commencement of work without restriction.

Policy for Releasing TFs or GFs from Contractual Obligations:
If, for whatever reason, a professor wants to release a TF or GF from the role, both the professor and student must discuss the issue and agree to dissolve the contract. Both professor and student should agree to termination and compensation in writing.

If it is decided that the TF or GF is released from the role, the professor and student must come to an agreement regarding payment. Generally, payment is pro-rated by the number of weeks worked. (For example, if a TF or GF has a salary of $3,600 and the semester is 15 weeks long, the weekly rate is $240. If the TF or GF has worked 4 out of 15 weeks, he or she would be paid $960.) However, the pro-rated amount can differ from this formula, as long as the professor and student agree on this new amount.

Students receiving tuition remission will have the partial credit removed from their account. The department’s coordinator should contact the Office of Faculty Affairs to inform the amount and they will provide the updated information to Financial Aid.

Students receiving a check from payroll will simply receive a reduced amount of paychecks. The department coordinator should contact Pauline Braz regarding the amount already disbursed (note: several smaller paychecks to TFs or GFs are disbursed throughout the semester; TF or GF salaries are not paid in one check) and then inform the Office of Faculty Affairs of the updated amount.

The remaining funds from the pro-rated salary can be used to hire another Teaching Fellow. If a Faculty member would like to pay the replacement TF or GF more than the balance, these funds would have to come out of the Faculty member’s STARS account.

You will be paid by payroll check through Human Resources. These payments are subject to union dues and taxes. Graders and Tutors are exempt from the union and will still be paid by payroll with compensation subject to tax withholding, but union dues will not apply.

Yes. However, a student may not exceed 20 hours of work per week during the semester.
Students can work up to 35 hours per weel during the summer.

You may work up to 35 hours/week over the course of Summer I,II, and III terms. May graduates cannot work.

No. Courses need to meet enrollment and course credit load requirements to be eligible.

No. Students may not make independent arrangements for additional compensation to tutor students in the class to which they are assigned as a TF. Petitions for exceptions to this policy must be accompanied by the following, submitted in writing by the instructor: (1) A complete description of the TF's responsibilities (2) A guarantee that the TF will not be engaged in any interpretive assessment of student work.

Yes, but only with approval from the professor and the department Administrative Coordinator.