Salary and Employment

Who to contact?

During your employment, you report to the head of your department
For questions related to your employment letter and this site, please contact your PhD administrator
For any questions related to your payroll process, please contact AU HR Payroll via this mailbox: lonAA.hr@au.dk

4+4 PhD students at the Faculty of Arts are offered paid work in addition to their SU PhD scholarship, 280 working hours in total during part A of the PhD degree programme (two years), corresponding to one-third of the workload on a three-year PhD fellowship. If the enrolment on part A is 1½ years the working hours are 210.
The work assignments will not necessarily be allocated in accordance with the disbursements, but at the end of the period, the work performed must correspond to the pay disbursed.
On part A, the work assignments may not exceed the 280 hours or the number of hours for which the student has been employed, if the period on part A has been reduced. It is not possible to transfer work hours between part A and part B.

During your employment, you report to the head of the department.
Your work tasks will be determined prior to each semester by agreement with the head of department/school and your principle supervisor
Tasks may include teaching, research dissemination or other academic activities performed to reduce the workload of other academic staff members

Your employment conditions are regulated by the circular on employment terms and conditions for academics employed by the Danish state, appendix 5c on payment of PhD students for work tasks in connection with the PhD programme.

Hourly-paid emplyment and paid work for the department

Your employment are connected to the paid work for the department
This content is only valid if you have accepted the employment at the start of enrolmment.

Working hours

Your average weekly working hours is a about 2.68 hours per week. Please see your employment letter.
As your wages will be paid in equal instalments throughout the period, there will not necessarily be a one-to-one correlation between the timing of the wages paid out to you and the scheduling of tasks over the period.

Pay

You accrue and hold paid holiday pursuant to the Danish Holiday Act (Ferieloven) and the provisions set out in the circular on the agreement regarding holiday.

Your employment terminates without further notice at the end of the employment period. Your employment can also be terminated in accordance with the applicable terms of notice for non-salaried employees paid on an hourly basis in Denmark (section 20, subsection 2).
If you withdraw from your PhD studies your paid employment become void.

You are not entitled to sick pay. Notification of illness must be made in accordance with the procedures laid down at the place of employment.
Information concerning absence due to illness must be given to the department by the first day of absence. Information concerning absence due to long-term illness must also be given to the PhD Administration, Graduate School, Arts after 2 weeks of absence. Both the department and the PhD Administration must be notified when you are fit to work full-time again.
Please see this page for information

Absence due to parental leave must be informed to both the department and the PhD Administration within the existing deadlines for the purpose of authorisation of leave of absence.
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However, if you have accepted salaried employment on part A, you will be covered by the university’s obligations under the Consolidated Workers’ Compensation Act if you are injured during the performance of your duties under this employment.
Please note that PhD students who are not employed by the university are not covered by the university’s obligations under the Consolidated Workers’ Compensation Act (arbejdsskadesikringsloven). Consequently, we recommend that you take out private, full-time liability and accident insurance.
For further information please see: https://medarbejdere.au.dk/en/administration/hr/recruitment-and-employment/insurance/insurance

Revised 18.03.2025