---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 11/3/2004 7:21:10 PM Central Standard Time, purdy@ohio.edu writes: Here we get an annual evaluation and raise. I have a twelve month contract, renewed each year. This is basically the same as faculty. We all get the same percentage of a basic raise. Then, depending on the budget, the dean and the school director each can add to that as a merit raise. As far as I know, there are no other raises at anyones whim. Chris Thanks to all those who contributed to this post. In my situation, this past summer, the president announced a 7.5% merit pay raise. But I only got 2%. The way it was explained to me was that I am already the highest paid staff member of the School of Music, even higher than our administrative assistant, who's been at her job for 25 years, and has received all sorts of awards. He told me that if I got more than 2% it would basically ruffle some feathers. (The administrative assistant does all the payroll, so I guess it would be her feather that got ruffled.) I am not complaining too much, though. Yes, the extra money would have been nice, but I've got a pretty nice job. I'm appreciated, and I don't have to account for my time. I get paid $21.52 an hour for 37.5 hours per week, and an extra $3000 per semester to teach a Music Appreciation class. Next semester I'll get another $1500 to teach a piano class, like we've been discussing, and direct the handbell choir. In regard to putting something the CAUT guidelines, what I was looking for was not actual figures, but perhaps a pay range. I think the reason the UT job is only paying $15 per hour is ignorance. I don't think the university has any idea of what the better school are paying, much less what full time piano technicians make on the outside. The other thing is the experience and education thing. Again, I think it's ignorance. I don't think even the professors in the music department have any idea of what it takes, education and experience wise, to properly take care of the pianos. Just as at Denver, if UT thinks they are going to get someone with only 3 - 5 years of experience, with only a high school education, who knows how to properly voice and regulate their concert piano, they are going to be for a rude awakeing. If it is the intention of this committee to send the guidelines to all music departments around the country, perhaps a short paragraph about this might open some eyes. Wim ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/28/7b/47/89/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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