McMaster offers robust, market-driven compensation, benefits, retirement savings plans/pensions, time off and performance and service recognition. McMaster’s employee programs attract, develop and retain an outstanding workforce eager to share their time, talents and successes. Please see below to view total compensation for your employee group.
Staff at McMaster includes non-management, non-academic employees of the University. This employee group is represented by Unifor Local 5555, Unit 1.
UniforThe Management Group (TMG) includes directors and managers with supervisory responsibility and employees without supervisory responsibility and who are exempt from unionized employee groups due to the confidential nature of the work they perform.
TMG StaffThe McMaster University Faculty Association (MUFA) is a professional association that represents the interests of all faculty members and senior academic librarians of McMaster University and is responsible for collective bargaining with the Administration. Professor, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors and Lecturers with a Contractually Limited Appointment as well as Senior Academic Librarians are members of MUFA.
Faculty (MUFA)Sessional Faculty have full or joint full responsibility for the teaching of one or more University degree credit courses. Sessional Faculty are represented by The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Local 3906, Unit 2.
Sessional FacultyTeaching assistants are responsible for leading class discussions, supervising a lab group, marking assignments, meeting and corresponding with students or facilitating help sessions. Teaching assistants are represented by The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Local 3906, Unit 1.
Teaching AssistantsPost-doctoral fellows are employees that have been awarded a PhD or equivalent. The appointment involves substantial research or scholarship, and may also involve some teaching. Post-doctoral Fellows, excluding those in the Faculty of Health Sciences, are represented by The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Local 3906, Unit 3.
Post Doctoral FellowsTemporary, casual and/or interim staff perform a variety of functions across campus. They are employed in a position with a duration of less than 6 months or having no specified schedule for a definite or indefinite duration.
Temporary/Casual/Interim
