Details concerning remuneration of temporary tutors (less than one-year appointments and usually part-time), demonstrators, teaching assistants and guest lecturers/teachers follow.
Funds made available for the remuneration of "junior" staff (i.e. not qualified as teachers or professionals) are based on the "maximum rate for the (specified) position". These rates are scaled according to the academic level attained by employees, and take into account the degree of academic responsibility for the effective learning of students carried by them. This ranges from "full control", when direct and continuous teaching of particular groups of students is done in a co-ordinated but unassisted manner over prolonged periods, and "assistance-mode" when the teaching is discontinuous and is done under supervision.
Suggested "maximum rates for the (specified) position" in 2025 have increased by 4.4% and will be as follows:
Level "Full control" "Assistance-mode" Max. per hour where each tutorial is assumed to be worth up to a maximum of four hours work, unless proved otherwise in a documented way. Max. per hour of demonstration at practicals or large tutorials, fieldwork, etc.; one hour extra is allowed for marking for each session of one to four hours. Undergraduates up to end of 3rd year of study R120 R68 Graduate (3rd year degree) or 4th year undergraduate R123 R93 Graduate (4th year degree) or Honours student or postgraduate diploma student or 5-6th year undergraduate R156 R118 Graduate (5th or 6th year degree) or Masters student R169 R123 PhD student R175 R148 PhD graduate R210 R156 Examples:
- Ten Honours students are hired, each to give a total of 30 "full-control" tutorials. Each of these sessions is assumed to represent four hours of actual work (i.e. contact time and preparation, marking, etc.).
Thus each student will receive (30 x 4)hr. = 120hr x R156 = R18720 for the year. - PhD students are hired, each to help supervise 12 practicals lasting four hours (contact time). Each of these sessions is assumed to represent five hours of actual work (four hours contact time plus one hour marking time).
Thus each student will receive (5 x 12)hrs = 60hrs x R175 = R 10 500 for the year.
- Ten Honours students are hired, each to give a total of 30 "full-control" tutorials. Each of these sessions is assumed to represent four hours of actual work (i.e. contact time and preparation, marking, etc.).
- Except in the case of certain disciplines [see (3) below] funds made available for the remuneration of "senior staff" (i.e. teachers who have qualifications and experience comparable with those of the lecturing staff in the disciplines concerned, or professionals) will be based on a maximum flat rate of R702 per session in the case of persons who are not yet "authorities" in their fields, or R1318 for those who are. Where the guest teaching involves the separate setting and marking of written work including test or examination papers, further payments at R242 or R511 per hour respectively will be justified if properly motivated.
In the case of certain categories of part-time guest teachers, the hourly maximum rates will be as follows:
Music instruction R386 per hour Fine art R210 per hour Method teaching (supervision) R275 per hour + R361 per supervised student Studio master in architecture R294 per hour Studio lectures in architecture R364 per hour Ballet instructors R261 per hour - Marking of test or examination scripts will be paid at the "assistance-mode" per rate hour, appropriate to the level of the marker (see 1. above).
Page last updated: 21 January 2025