The Full Time Employees (Faculty & Staff) category includes: 9 month faculty, 12 month faculty, summer faculty, 12 month staff, 10 month staff, 10 month salaried, and 12 month salaried (except working retiree) employees. Additionally, an individual must be appointed to a regular faculty or staff position that has an anticipated duration of greater than six months, and works at least 30 hours a week (.75 EFT or greater for staff and .56 EFT or greater for academic year faculty).
The Part Time Employees (Faculty & Staff) category includes: part time faculty, salaried working retiree, temporary salaried, and temporary staff. Additionally, if academic faculty is less than .56 EFT or staff/salaried (10 month or 12 month) is less than .75 EFT, they would be included in the part time employee category as well.
The Graduate Assistants category includes: all graduate students that have an appointment as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, Graduate Research Assistant, or Graduate Laboratory Assistant.
Please note: Student Assistants, Federal Work Study, and Special Work Study students are NOT included in any of the above employee categories therefore, NONE of the fringe rates apply to these employee types.
Effective January 1, 2012 per the Board of Regents, benefits eligibility for all benefits (excluding retirement and leave accruals) change from 20 to 30 hours (for faculty .38 FTE to .56 FTE and for staff .50 FTE to .75 FTE). See USG/BOR announcement. See GSU announcement.
