Kent State tech position

[Richard Moody]

The offer seems insulting to those who cannot remember when they did not
earn $25, 484.00 after expenses.
Did you read the whole post?  It said full benifits.  That can mean up to
$300 a month more.  What does your self employed health care cost? Also it
said "free tuition".
The poster said he earned a degree and his wife earned a bachlors and
masters.
The value of that is at least 50 grand for two under grad degrees, and I
suppose 25 grand for a masters.
    The bottom line is how many people apply.  If you  you are so much
better off than $25k net, I don't see why it matters to you why someone new
would want to work their way up by starting at beginning wages.  For a job
that needs no formal education that seems a fair offer.  Sure there are
institutions that have potential for twice as much, perhaps because it costs
4 times as much to go there instead of K State, and their prestige, etc
etc..... but it would be 10 times harder to get that job.
If the top rated institutions lower their rates for technicians, because of
the lowest paying institutions, then we might have cause to fret.  But that
ain't gonna happen unless capitalism collapses like communism, or the
magnetic poles reverse, or a super nova, or.......   ---ric




Subject: RE: Kent State tech position


> I concur fully. Nearly as bad, there is another state university here in
> Washington that has the position at 49%. Why? Because here, by law, any
> position at 50% or greater has to pay benefits - health, retirement and
> other insurance, etc. It's insulting to me that, first the State agency is
> being a poor example of employer citizenship, and second that any
> self-respecting tech. would perpetuate this.
>
>
> Mark Story. RPT
> Eastern Washington University

>
> Subject: RE: Kent State tech position
>
> >PIANO TECHNICIAN
>
> >School of Music. Wage: $12.74.
>
> Personally, I find that insulting!  As long as someone keeps accepting
this
> "McDonald's" wages, Piano Technicians will barely above the janitor...I
bet
> the janitor gets paid more!
> David I.
>