This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Don't forget, Wim, this is TENNESSEE! Ignorance is rife here in higher education-in all of Tennesse education, for that matter! So are low salaries. Yes, let's get that "peeaner tooner" with 3 to 5 years experience and pay him $15 an hour. RPT? Duh, whazzat? On the other hand, we do have "Rocky Top!" And the second state song, "The Tennessee Waltz" - "I wus dancin' wif muh darlin' to the Tinnn-uh-see walse...." I did get a salary increase this year-I can make the same amount in two days tuning pianos outside the University system. There are positive reasons why I'm where I am, but salary is not one of them! They did give the UT System faculty/staff a one-time bonus which the student tuition funded-then took out 25% for taxes. And they are so proud of themselves! I think it's funny.=20 =20 Your experience with the 7.5% merit pay increase doesn't surprise me in the least! Typical-and sad! =20 Joy! Elwood =20 Elwood Doss, Jr. M.M.E.; RPT Piano Technician/Technical Director Department of Music 145 Fine Arts Building The University of Tennessee at Martin Martin, TN 38238 731/881-1852 _____ =20 From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Wimblees@aol.com Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 5:51 AM To: caut@ptg.org Subject: Re: pay raises wasRe: [CAUT] job opening =20 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=20 contract, renewed each year. This is basically the same as faculty. =20 We all get the same percentage of a basic raise. Then, depending on=20 the budget, the dean and the school director each can add to that as a=20 merit raise. As far as I know, there are no other raises at anyones=20 whim. =09 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.=20 =20 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.=20 =20 Wim=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/4b/88/d0/62/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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