Carleton has three different ways to pay “Research Assistants” depending on the employee-employer relationship as defined by the Canada Revenue Agency: The Graduate Job Requisition System, eShop, and Payroll Profile.  Answers to the following questions will define which of these three payment methods must be used:

• Is the “research assistant” related to you, under your academic supervision, business partner or close friend?
• Is the “research assistant” a Carleton undergraduate, graduate student or postdoctoral fellow or someone from another institution and or someone else entirely, such as a recent graduate, consultant, etc.?
• Will you be managing the “research assistant” as a manager would an employee; supervising them in your capacity as an academic supervisor, or are they experts in the “work” that is being performed and delivering a product/service, not unlike a translator who will deliver a finished product?
• How many hours will they be working per week and over how many years?

Need more help defining the relationship to determine eligibility for inclusion in a budget for submission? Contact your Faculty Research Facilitator.

Need more help determining the payment application to use? Contact the Research Post-Award Administrators.