Pretend you are a professor with a lab in which a summer student has tried to apply for the work study program at.
You are now faced with a dilemma.
The work study program has a strict policy that if the program subsidizes $9/hr to the student's salary the minimum wage is $13/hr. This is excellent as all the you'd have to pay is $4 an hour and gives the work study program student a great salary.
The problem is that your graduate student in the lab who's going to be supervising the workstudy program student currently earns $12/hr, and that you were intentionally only going to pay the work study student $9/hr.
The question?:
Option 1. go with the work study program and save money.
Option 2. go with what you feel is the hierarchy of the lab and simply pay the $9 an hour to the work study student.
on a side note... researchers get paid jack shit...
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I'd hire me.
But on the serious: I would pay the work study student more.
A- research mainly exists because of grants from others. There is no good intrinsic salary for a researcher. They should not be spending their hard earned (it is!) grants on paying a freshman.
B- Grad students competitively need placement. There are a buttload of grad students who are willing to work for free just to get to where they want in life.
Yes it is completely unfair that someone very much less competent is earning more money than you are, but it is for the good of the lab. If this was a one on one thing (grad student/work study student) then an easy way is to just pay $2~3/hr extra to the grad student, and it'd still be cheaper than paying the wage themselves. However, I'm assuming that you're the only work study and there are multiple grad students at your lab?
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