Re: how do you compensate your peer tutors?

[Beth.Rapp.Young@Rollins.Edu]

Kelly-
Hope it's not too late for this information to help:

At Rollins, all tutors (except volunteers) enroll in a for-credit
course which is one credit spread out over the entire year.  The\
majority of the course is 16 "hell" hours of training in the fall,
the rest is made up of a weekly staff/class 1 hr meeting.

Work-study students make (I believe) minimum wage but they never
see any of it.  We think of their salaries in terms of hours/week.

Other students get minimum wage.  Unless they have previously worked
for the college in another capacity (or the same capacity) for a year,
in which case they make 10 cents more per hour.  Unless they also
work full-time for the college and attend night classes (either
undergrad or MAT/MLS/MBA programs) in which case they make time
and a half of their full-time salary.

In the past, we've hired based on "number of hours worked last year"
and the college has simply given us enough to keep the center open
with the same number of paid-by-cash and paid-by-work study students
every year.  But this year, we received a cash total, and had to
follow two separate procedures for hiring/paying the different classes
of students (who now have different pay periods).  And believe me,
trying to figure out how many people we can afford to hire given
their differing salaries and the amount of information we don't have
up-front (such as their current full-time salaries) is tough.  Also,
we get a donation for nigh-school undergrads from a different place
than our day-school budget.

And I won't even go into what happens if, say, a work-study student
gets sick and an otherwise full-time employee of the college agrees
to work her hours . . . .

Hope your pay system is less Byzantine

Beth
Beth Rapp Young
Ass't. Dir. of Writing Programs
Rollins College
Winter Park, FL
BYoung@Rollins.edu