Remuneration for teaching assignments

Internal lecturers

Internal lecturers are not entitled to remuneration. Regardless of their contracted working hours, internal lecturers are:

• ETH Zurich employees
• Employees at the ETH domain research institutes (WSL, EAWAG, PSI and EMPA) and EPFL
• Employees working at ETHZ-UZH joint institutes

Exception: Substitute lecturers are remunerated up to 80% of the fixed rates for a maximum of 4 consecutive semesters, but not more CHF 6,000 a semester.

External lecturers

Unless no remuneration is requested, external lecturers receive a fixed sum for the semester. This applies to retired professors, retired honorary professors, lecturers and senior lecturers who are not employed at ETH or within the ETH domain.

There are two remuneration categories:

• Remuneration transferred to the lecturer’s bank account: payment from which social security contributions are deducted.
• The lecturer’s employer issues an invoice: A fixed sum is transferred to the lecturer’s employer without any deduction of social security contributions.

In accordance with the “Directives on remuneration for assistance in student performance assessment at ETH Zurich”, three course types may be remunerated: work (A), thesis (D) and revision (R). No teaching assignment applications must be submitted for these types of teaching assignment.

When a number of lecturers teach the same courses they are remunerated according to the number of hours they teach.

If the same course runs frequently, only one full course may be remunerated. Repeat courses are remunerated at a rate of 0.7.

Contracts

As a rule, ETH Zurich concludes an unlimited part-time working contract with external lecturers. The department responsible for the teaching assignment(s) requests Human Resources to conclude and terminate the contracts.

In the case of external lecturers whose employers send an invoice to ETH Zurich, the ETH concludes a contract directly with the company (Ltd. or limited liability) at which the lecturer is employed.

If a teaching assignment will not be continued, the department must immediately inform the lecturer and the Room and Course Scheduling Office.

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