{"id":174923,"date":"2023-03-28T15:47:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T01:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=174923"},"modified":"2023-03-28T15:47:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T01:47:59","slug":"manoa-grad-assistant-pay-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/03\/28\/manoa-grad-assistant-pay-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay increase for <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa graduate assistants scheduled for August 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/manoa-campus-gnrc-mccarthy.jpg\" alt=\"Students walking on U H Manoa campus\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-158523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/manoa-campus-gnrc-mccarthy.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/manoa-campus-gnrc-mccarthy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/manoa-campus-gnrc-mccarthy-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The minimum pay for graduate assistants (<abbr>GA<\/abbr>) at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa is scheduled to increase on August 1, 2023, and it is a larger increase than what was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/08\/23\/ga-pay-increases-sick-leave\/\">previously announced in 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>GA<\/abbr> minimum pay beginning in August will be Step 12 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/graduate\/compensation-tax-withholding\/\"><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa <abbr>GA<\/abbr> compensation table<\/a>, $22,140 for a 9-month appointment and $25,908 for an 11-month appointment. <abbr>GA<\/abbr>s were scheduled to increase to a Step 10, $20,472 for 9 months and $23,952 for 11 months before this most recent update. <abbr>GA<\/abbr>s also receive tuition waivers.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This change is being made to ensure that <abbr>GA<\/abbr> compensation covers our official <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Cost of Attendance,&rdquo; according to a March 8 memo from Provost <strong>Michael Bruno<\/strong> and <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Chief Business Officer <strong>Sandy French<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The pay increase follows a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/policy\/?action=viewPolicy&#038;policySection=ep&#038;policyChapter=9&#038;policyNumber=240\">new sick leave policy<\/a> adopted in fall 2022, where each <abbr>GA<\/abbr> receives sick leave at the beginning of each academic semester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pay increase follows a new <abbr>GA<\/abbr> sick leave policy adopted in fall 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-174923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174923"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174937,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174923\/revisions\/174937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}