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>Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 09:21:47 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Ed Dente <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Student Pay
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>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum    <[log in to unmask]>

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Last semester a number of lab directors were kind enough to send me 
student pay rates for a survey I was conducting.
I received thirty responses. The results were very
interesting, and I presented them at the spring NERALLD
meeting. Keeping in mind that this semester a number of schools raised
their rates in keeping with new minimum wage laws, the results still
provide a comparative snapshot of schools in the US and Canada which is
likely to remain relatively the same.

For starting pay:
Low - $5
High - $8.15
Ave. - $6.03
Mode - $5.15
Median - $5.75
Range - $3.15

Max (after all raises possible)
Low - $5.
High - $10.84
Ave. - $6.84
Mode - $5.00
Median - $6.80
Range - $5.84

It is interesting that under max. pay rate, the school paying the highest
max. rate pays more than twice the rate of the school paying the
lowest max. rate.

Seventeen schools gave raises solely on time (semester raises), one gave
raises on skill acquisition, two on a combination of the two, four did not
give raises, and the rest did not reply to this question.

If you would like to see the full survey, please e-mail me and I will send
the Excel sheet as an attachment to you. Be warned - I name names! (or, at
least, schools. But, they can be deleted if anyone requests.)
Cheers,
Ed Dente
    
"If you want to call me that, smile."
                        -Gary Cooper, <<The Virginian>>


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Edmund N. Dente
Director, Language Media Center    Ph: 617-627-3036
Tufts University                   [log in to unmask]
Medford, MA 02155