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I know that the TVL system exists but I am not sure if TVL-E13/2 would mean it is 50% of TVL-E13 or what does the "/2" mean, could someone explain please? I've seen it in multiple PhD positions offers.

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  • Yes, it means that you would be paid 50% of a salary of a full position. I will vote to close as off-topic. Feb 13, 2021 at 21:29
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    @Snijderfrey Many other TVL questions have been deemed on topic. Union contracts are an important part of academia, even if they apply to nonacademics too. Feb 14, 2021 at 4:10
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    Which field is that? (Could matter as to whether this means 50% or level 2.)
    – user151413
    Feb 15, 2021 at 1:24
  • Translational research / Biochemistry
    – Rubichem
    Feb 15, 2021 at 15:28

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A good source of information regarding TV-L is the TV-L calculator at https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-202, which is supported by current TV-L employees (but not actually official). The calculator has the following main options (from top to bottom):

  1. TV-L level, e.g. E13
  2. TV-L stage (with increasing work experience, you get more money)
  3. Percentage of a full position

The other options are useful to compute salary after taxes (taking pensions and healthcare costs into account), but are set to reasonable defaults.

After choosing options, click the gray "berechnen" button. The number marked in bold in the left column will be the exact salary before taxes, the bold number in the right row the salary estimation after taxes.

EDIT [Updated answer]: Regarding your specific question: /2 appears to most often refer to the percentage by which the position is funded, as you proposed. However there appears to be some ambiguity around this. Does the main body of these adverts you're looking at contain more specific information?

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    In the given context, it is quite more likely that /2 refers to a fraction of 50% rather than level 2.
    – user151413
    Feb 15, 2021 at 1:23
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    oeffentlicher-dienst.info is in no way "the official TV-L calculator". As their impressum states: "Öffentlicher-Dienst.info ist eine unabhängige Informations-Plattform für Mitarbeiter und Interessenten des öffentlichen Dienstes. Dieser Website ist weder 'amtlich' noch 'offiziell'!"
    – K-HB
    Feb 15, 2021 at 8:29
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    Regarding /2 as 50% - I have only ever seen the percentage written as a percentage, never as a fraction - so I would always assume /n refers to a pay grade stage [NRW]. Maybe this is state specific?
    – mirrormere
    Feb 15, 2021 at 8:53
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    I haven't found any unambiguous information regarding the "/2" part of the question on the website you're referring to. But from googling some job ads that offer a "13/2 positon", it seems that the comments above are correct in that the "/2" denotes a fraction, i.e. this would be a part-time position. See e.g. uni-muenster.de/Rektorat/Stellen/ausschreibungen/… Moreover, it doesn't make much sense to include the Stufe in the job ad, since the Stufeneinordnung depends on the experience of the applicant and not on the job description.
    – henning
    Feb 15, 2021 at 9:18
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    I have never seen a TVL/TVÖD job offer that specifies an experience stage. I have seen many for part-time positions, particularly for phd positions. Some of them might even have specified as fraction but percentage or hours is the norm.
    – user9482
    Feb 15, 2021 at 17:47

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