<HTML>In a message dated 5/30/02 11:31:41 AM Central Daylight Time, rwest1@unl.edu writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">My guess is that most universities would use salary only as a basis to figure an hourly rate, but I don't know that for sure.  There's also a danger in doing calculations like this because having to figure hourly rates seems to put our work in the clerical category rather than the professional category which is always salaried</BLOCKQUOTE> Although I would like to be "salaried," I am not. I am paid $19.35 per hour. And from what I have been reading, that seems to be the norm, rather than the exception. Yes, it does seem like being an "hourly" employee seems like it is in the clerical category, I doubt very much any cleric gets paid $19.35 per hour. I think it is generally accepted that when someone makes close to $20 per hour, plus benefits, that person is more in the "professional" category. I realize here are acceptions, but I don't think you're going to find too many "unprofessional" people getting paid in the $15 -- $20 range. </HTML>