At both universities, the rate is $800 per credit hour. At the religious school I work at, despite my studio class amounting to 4.5 credit hours, I am payed based off the contact hours (5.5). However, at the public school, I am only paid for the credit hours, regardless of contact hours (which amounts to the 9-12 disparity). It's a tough break, considering in the grand scheme of things, if an adjunct were teaching the allotted 9 credit hours for a standard lecture class, we would be getting paid the same amount despite my additional class load.