---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 C.F.R. § 675.24"
title: "34"
number: "675.24"
heading: "Establishment of wage rate under FWS."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/34/675.24"
---

# §675.24. Establishment of wage rate under FWS.

- (a) **Wage rates.**
  - (1) Except as provided in [paragraph (a)(3)](#a-3) of this section, an institution shall compute FWS compensation on an hourly wage basis for actual time on the job. An institution may not pay a student a salary, commission, or fee.
  - (2) An institution may not count fringe benefits as part of the wage rate.
  - (3) An institution may pay a graduate student it employs a salary or an hourly wage, in accordance with its usual practices.
- (b) **Minimum wage rate.** The minimum wage rate for a student employee under the FWS program is the minimum wage rate required under section 6(a) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.

## Notes

### Amendments

[52 FR 45770, Dec. 1, 1987, as amended at 59 FR 61419, Nov. 30, 1994]

### Authority

Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1070g, 1094; 42 U.S.C. 2751-2756b; unless otherwise noted

### Source

Source: 52 FR 45770, Dec. 1, 1987, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[52 FR 45770, Dec. 1, 1987, as amended at 59 FR 61419, Nov. 30, 1994]