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)

2019-2022 Adjunct and Overload Rates