---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 5/22/02 7:46:17 PM Central Daylight Time, vem@email.byu.edu writes: > I cannot agree with Wim less when he says that a CAUT's salary should be > comparable to other full time staff positions at their respective > universities. Like secretaries, huh? Bologna!! How would we be "shooting > ourselves in the foot" if we "advocate" that CAUTs should be earning > what "upper end" piano techs in the private sector earn?? That to me would > be > exactly what we SHOULD be holding up as an example!! > > Look. It's simple. What could YOU be making privately, in an 8 hour day? > Take that figure, minus the benefits package, and voila! There's your > salary. > Period. > vince > Vince I said NOT like a secretary. You are right that the formula, working an 8 hour day, minus the benefit package, is a good salary. So let's take a look at that. First of all, as I pointed out, very few technicians work an 8 hour day. Most techs I know, who consider themselves full time, work 50 or 60 hours a week. Maybe they are out there tuning pianos from 9 - 5, but then they come home and do paper work, make telephone calls, set up appointments, etc., and all of a sudden, there's an extra 10 to 20 hours. Benefits. I presume most universities give about the same benefits. First of all, I only work 37.5 hours per week. I get 4 weeks of paid vacation, plus 6 paid holidays. I get 1 day per month counted towards my sick days, that's another 12 days a year of paid time. My health insurance costs me $175 per month for my wife and I. Last year I was paying $550 per month. I get time off to attend seminars and conventions, and I actual get reimbursed some of my expenses for the convention. I can take 2 classes per semester free. If I had kids, they would get free tuition. It costs me $30 per month for my wife and I to go to the rec center. I was paying $700 a year for the both of us to belong to Balleys. (Because I work only 3 blocks from there, I go almost every day at lunch to work out. Last year I got to go maybe two or three times a month, and even then, I had to go out of my way to get to a club.) And last, but not least, 3% of my income is deducted for retirement, which the state will double when I retire. I make $20 per hour, times $37.50 is $39,000. My vacation time, sick days, and holidays adds another $5850. The difference between what I used to pay, and what it cost me now for health insurance is $4800. The difference in rec center is $340. Retirement adds $1170 per year. This year I am taking 3 weeks of professional development time, at $20 per hour is another $2250. That's $14,410. in "benefits." That doesn't even include the tuition, which I am not taking advantage of. My full time income from the university has a value of $53,410. Is this in line what a "full time" technician makes? Wim ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/9b/3d/f0/0f/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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