<HTML>In a message dated 6/20/03 10:48:39 AM Central Dayligh= t Time, jtanner@mozart.sc.edu writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT= : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">So, this is the point of what I= 've written.  Both to encourage interested techs to hold out for a base salary that won't require outside work to just<= BR> pay basic costs of living, and to make the point that if the CAUT field is<B= R> going to attract more qualified techs, the salary average needs to go up.<BR= > And that's not going to happen until more CAUTs start asking for more rather than accepting a salary which qualifies for Medicaid in order to get<= BR> lower health insurance costs. </BLOCKQUOTE> Part of the problem also is the fact that for the most part, unlike other ci= vil servants at a university, like groundskeepers, and even secretaries, the= re is just one piano tech. We can't band together to ask for higher pay. Eve= n the faculty can get together and demand higher pay. I don't know how it is= at other universities, but faculty in different colleges get different pay.= The College of Arts & Sciences are on the low end, while the Law school= faculty get the most. Their argument is that the school has to offer higher= salaries to attract higher qualified lawyers to teach. Unfortunately, the s= ame mentality doesn't seem to apply to other departments, much less the pian= o tech. Wim </HTML>