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| ===== Cubicles, keys, and key cards ===== | ===== Cubicles, keys, and key cards ===== |
| To get your cubicle assignment, to get your key card (student ID) programmed, and to get any hard keys you might need, talk to Nina Ruymaker (501C) and/or Mark Hayden (501/Reception) in Campbell Hall. | To get your cubicle assignment, to get your key card (student ID) programmed so that you have access to the building, and to get any hard keys you might need, talk to Maria Kies (501G, emkies@berkeley.edu). First year students are typically assigned a group of desks on the second floor near each other. After your first year, people tend to move to other desks throughout the department (near or far from your adviser's office as you prefer!). |
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| ===== Getting Paid ===== | ===== Getting Paid ===== |
| Amber keeps a [[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dcErr2ZNhefKkgQffhWeGLrXdPKc4zVC|google drive here]] with handy information about pay, including your pay rates. Note that all of the sheets are for the academic year, i.e. 2019 means academic year 2019-2020 (and summer pay thus refers to summer 2020). Each student also has a financial statement that they can check to monitor their pay status. | Yasasha Ridel (yasasha@berkeley.edu) is the point person for all matters to do with pay. Every year, she will email you a personalized spreadsheet detailing where your funding is coming from (based on information that you will provide her), and how much you can expect to get paid in a given semester, as the breakdown of funding may be uneven throughout the year. She will also send out a google form at the end of each semester asking for information on where your funding will come from for the next year - you should discuss this with your research advisor. |
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| If you have an outside source of funding (scholarship, fellowship, etc.) make sure to let Amber Banayat (abanayat@berkeley.edu) know ASAP. | As of Spring 2022, the department is part of ERSO, and every semester (and summer) we will need to request our appointments (GSR/GSI/combination/other) each semester by filling out a form on the ERSO page. Yasasha will email this form out and the deadline to complete it by. Make sure to do this on time to make Yasasha's life easier! |
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| If you are teaching (which should be most of you), you should receive a Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) Contract via email from Amber a few weeks before the semester starts. Once you have replied to Amber saying you accept the contract, you should get an email from the staff member in charge of payroll. Make sure to inquire with said staff member about withholding for Federal and state taxes. Much of our pay (fellowships, in particular) do not have automatic withholding, and if you don't withhold extra during the year, you'll end up with a hefty penalty come tax time. | If you are teaching, you should receive a Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) Contract via email a few weeks before the semester starts. Once you have replied saying you accept the contract, you should get an email from the staff member in charge of payroll. |
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| You'll also need to sign up for EFT (electronic funds transfer), which you can do [[https://eftstudent.berkeley.edu/|by clicking here]]. The account you link to your EFT will receive all paychecks, reimbursements, and other Berkeley-related deposits. It is unclear at this time whether this covers everything. Amber has been told by the university that students should sign up for direct deposit through [[https://ucpath.berkeley.edu/home/|UC Path]]. | If you have an outside source of funding (scholarship, fellowship, etc.) make sure to let Yasasha know ASAP. Make sure to inquire with said staff member about withholding for Federal and state taxes. Some of our pay (fellowships, in particular) do not have automatic withholding, and if you don't withhold extra during the year, you'll end up with a hefty penalty come tax time. |
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| | You'll also need to sign up for EFT (electronic funds transfer), which you can do [[https://eftstudent.berkeley.edu/|by clicking here]]. The account you link to your EFT will receive all paychecks, reimbursements, and other Berkeley-related deposits. You should also sign up for direct deposit through [[https://ucpath.berkeley.edu/home/|UC Path]]. |
