Community Service Federal Work-Study students will earn $14/hour. All wages are paid in full by their FWS award, with paychecks being directly deposited into their personal bank account biweekly.
CSFWS who return to the program for a subsequent academic year may be eligible for an increased hourly wage.
The Penn State Office of Student Aid processes all timesheets and payroll. Award amounts are established before the semester begins, typically $3500/year. It is the student’s responsibility to know their award amount, monitor their earnings, keep track of their award balance, notify their placement site when they are within $250 of reaching their award limit and STOP working if/when they have met it. Students are encouraged to generate a plan for maximizing their award and spreading it out over the semester.
Students may work a maximum of 8 hours/day. They may not work more than 20 hours/week when classes are in session and 40 hours/week when classes are not in session. Students will not be paid if they work more than eight hours/day, more than their maximum hours/week or more than their total award amount. These hour limits are in combination with any other Penn State FWS employment they have.
At the end of the pay period, students will complete their timesheet and submit it to their site supervisor. The site supervisor will verify their time against the sign in/out work log and sign their timesheet. The timesheet is to be scanned and emailed (by the site supervisor) as an attachment to fwstimesheet@psu.edu by 5:00 pm on the submission deadline date. Late timesheets will result in a delay in processing and the mentor will not be paid until the following pay period.