For many students, making $10 an hour for just sitting around sounds almost too good to be true.

The only catch is, they have to be naked while they work.

A job posting for an unclothed model is just one of almost 100 jobs listed on the Student Employment Center’s job board this semester. Clothed models, who receive $7 an hour, also are needed for the Art and Design department.

More than 5,000 ISU students found jobs through the Student Employment Center last year. About 25 percent of those jobs were work-study, said Ann Wessman, assistant director of Student Financial Aid. But students trying to find jobs to pay for their tuition may have a harder time this year, due to a $500,000 cut in state funding to the ISU work-study program.

“It’s still fairly early in the game,” Wessman said, “[but] I don’t see [the numbers] falling an incredible amount this year.”

About 700 work-study jobs were secured so far this year, compared to last year’s 1,300 jobs, Wessman said. Applications are still being processed, but Wessman said she expects to have to cut off the number of recipients at about 1,000.

The difference between work-study and non-work-study jobs essentially is funding, Wessman said. Work-study wages are 70 percent government funded, with employers paying the remaining 30 percent. Employers pay 100 percent of non-work-study job wages.

The Student Employment Center, a branch of Student Financial Aid, acts as a referral service for non-work-study jobs. Employers on and off campus can post openings on a free job board students view through Access Plus. Wessman said the job board was successful.

Most students assisted by the Student Employment Center are undergraduates, although some graduate students’ assistantships are funded through Student Financial Aid, Wessman said.

According to the center’s home page, a student can work for minimum wage -$5.15 per hour – for 12 hours each week during two semesters and earn $1,730. That’s slightly more than full-time resident undergraduate student tuition for one semester.

But tuition and books aren’t the only things students are paying for.

“I have a wedding to save up for,” said Sarah Anderson, senior in sociology. She has worked at Onion’s convenience store in the Memorial Union for the past two years to help pay for tuition, insurance and other off-campus living expenses in addition to her wedding, set for August.

Jill Mason, senior in hotel, restaurant and institution management, works 20 hours a week this semester and takes 17 credits to pay for living expenses and books. She works 15 hours at University Book Store and five at the Tearoom in MacKay Hall.

Working in the Tearoom gives her “something to build my resume,” Mason said. “I get to see a lot of people that I don’t normally see.”