Adjunct pay dates and rates are accessible in the financial section of this website as well as in the contract. 

Adjunct pay is based on the number of credit/contact hours an adjunct works and the rank an adjunct holds. The adjunct pay scale is based on four ranks for adjunct classroom faculty, librarians, and counselors (instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, and professor), two specialist ranks (specialist 1 and specialist 2), and three professional assistant ranks (PA, PA1 and PA2).

Adjunct lab PAs are paid per contact hour for the duration of the scheduled lab session and are responsible for no more than two simultaneous labs. The PA is responsible for the preparation and clean up of each lab assigned. If a PA’s assignment covers two labs in which the session lengths are not concurrent, the PA will be paid per contact hour from the beginning of the first lab session to the end of the second lab session. For safety reasons, PAs shall not be assigned concurrent labs in two different buildings.

Adjunct/Overload Pay Info

Adjunct/Overload Pay Dates

Adjunct/overload check pay periods begin the sixth week of the fall/spring semester. You will receive a total of seven checks for the semester. Visit the September and February issues of The WORD for specific dates each year.

Credit & Contact Hours

Faculty are paid overload/adjunct based on a contact hour.

• If a course you teach meets for 3 hours/week/semester, you are paid for 3 contact hours.
• If the course you teach meets for 5 hours/week/semester, you are paid 5 contact hours.

Often the credit hours students earn are equal to the contact hours the faculty member teaches/week/semester. Sometimes, though, a student may earn 4 credit hours but will be required to be in class 5 or 6 hours/week/semester. For those courses, faculty are paid based on the actual hours/week/semester they teach, not by the credit hours the students earn for the courses.

Non-Classroom Faculty

During the day, counselors and librarians are paid 20 clock hours = 1 contact hour pay.

In the evening, counselors and librarians are paid 18.66 clock hours = 1 contact hour pay.

Programmatic PAs and specialists are paid 22.5 clock hours = 1 contact hour of pay.

Laboratory PAs and specialists are paid 15 clock hours = 1 contact of pay.

(8 contact hours of pay = 180 clock hours/semester or 12 clock hours/week/15 week semester)

2022-2026 Adjunct and Overload Rates