Reference Documentation for Employee Classifications

Reference groups in Grouper are dynamically updated based on a person's affiliations with Harvard. One such affiliation is that of an employee. There are 19 distinct employee classifications that are used to create employee-related reference groups. Below is a table listing the employee classification codes and description.

For additional information about what jobs are included in each employee class, refer to the PeopleSoft Job Code Listing available on the Harvard Training Portal. Employee Class is an attribute of Job Code.

Code	Description	Explanation
A	Admin & Professional	Exempt, administrative/ professional staff (individual contributors, managers, executives). Grandfathered job codes start with “8” and “5”. No new incumbents should enter these job codes.
B	Special Exclusion	Adjunct faculty, typically working at the Division of Continuing Education
C	Temporary Academic	Work less than 6 mos, receive no benefits, contact Office of Academic Affairs
D	Temporary Student	Harvard students working on a temporary and part-time basis
E	Intern	Interns, many in Athletics and IT
F	Senior Faculty	Faculty appointments at the professorial rank, including tenured, non-tenured, and post-tenure appointments.
G	Graduate Students	Research Assistants/Teaching Fellows
H	Graduate Student Fellowship	Graduate Student Fellowship Recipients
I	TA's, Other Staff
J	Junior Faculty	Tenure-track assistant and associate professors at all schools. Also includes these non-ladder faculty: adjunct, clinical and non-clock assistant and associate professors, convertible instructors, senior preceptors (FAS only), and senior lecturers and multi-year lecturers at certain schools.
L	Part Time Service & Trade	Unionized hourly part-time service and trades (dining, custodial, etc.) employees.
N	Ext Post Docs NHR	Visiting scholars and scientists, Nieman and other fellows
O	Other Faculty	Non-ladder faculty at the following ranks: senior lecturer and lecturer for certain Schools, annual lecturer at all schools, preceptor (FAS only) and instructor. Also includes visiting faculty across all ranks, administrative leadership appointments (deans, department heads, directors), research appointments (research scientist, research associate), and athletic staff (FAS only).
S	Support Staff	Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), non-exempt
T	Temporary Staff	Non-student temporary staff including temps and LHTs
U	Service & Trade Hourly	Unionized hourly service and trades (dining, custodial, etc.) employees
W	Temp Off Campus Work Study	Temporary off-campus work-study appointments
Y	Internal Post Docs	Internal postdocs eligible for extended benefits
Z	Ext Post Docs Harvard Research	Non employee postdocs eligible for extended benefits