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As of 2022, the Graduate Student Affairs Coordinator (Yasasha Ridel in 2022) provides an individualized funding schedule to each graduate student. Your job is to read this, review it to ensure it is correct, and reply affirming so or providing corrections. If you want to get paid properly it is, in the end, up to YOU to keep track of your funding.
Your pay schedule depends on what type of funding you have. For most GSI/GSR positions, you'll get paid in monthly installments at the beginning of each month. Department fellowships get paid in lump sums at the beginning of the semester, while e.g. NSF fellowships are disbursed monthly like GSI/GSR stipends. Note that electronic fund transfers for fellowships and GSI positions differ, so be sure to set them up separately, if you don't want to have to go fetch a paper check each month.
Pay attention to whether or not tax is withheld– it's not withheld from fellowships, and can be a large surprise when it comes to tax time in April (ballpark $4000 ).
The department has an emergency fund to cover grad students with pay issues. This should be your first resource rather than the emergency loans from the university. Please contact the chair, head grad advisor, and/or the student affairs coordinator for access to this fund.
If you should run low on funds and need $ right away for miscellaneous expenses (the payroll office has been known to mess up pay checks from time to time), note that the university offers $775 emergency loans with 0 interest for 60 day periods, with a $20 application fee. Go to 212 Sproul to fill out the form between 9am-12:15pm M-Th, and pick up your check by 1 the same day!
