Listers -
I wouldn't characterize the difference between 20K & 33K as slight as it
closely matches the change in my own pay over my eleven years in the
profession and I know what a difference that has made in my life style.
Also as a salaried employee I've always considered that I'm getting paid for
what I know and what I can accomplish - not the hours I put in - which range
upward from 45hrs/wk.
So how do you get by with 6 people where there used to be 10? It's the old
saw of working smarter not harder. Re-prioritize all tasks (there are
always some that we'd like to do, but don't really need to do), or do one
less exhibition per year (depending on how you budget, this might also free
up more money for salaries), or re-double the effort to secure volunteers
and donations in kind (there's a topic for another whole thread).
Then work to get the budget up to hire back those 4 lost bodies. Raise or
start charging admission where possible, make your governing body aware of
their role & responsibility in all this - funding operations i.e. salaries,
extend operating hours to increase visitorship & income (If you're there
working those 60 hours anyway, why not let people in?).
In short, I agree that it's a problem that the "profession" hedges around
rather like people involved in abusive relationships who keep coming back
because they "love" the person or in this case the work. It'll change when
we change it and not before.
I hope my few examples of how to increase productivity and income will steer
this thread away from the philosophical to the practical. I enjoy the
philosophy, but I'm always looking for new ideas to steal myself.
RT
-----Original Message-----
From: Deb Fuller [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 11:27 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: museum salaries (yes, again!)
In a message dated Wed, 9 Aug 2000 11:57:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Ross
Weeks <[log in to unmask]> writes:
<< One avenue, which is not always palatable, is to reduce the number of
staff.
If a ten-person staff is paid $200,000 including benefits, (average $20,000
ea.) and the museum can always count on that $200,000 (more or less)....then
a six-person staff can earn an average of $33,333 including benefits.
Well, the question is with staff deduction, how much work will the 6 people
remaining have to do? Would it be easier to give 10 people 40hr/week jobs
and a lower salary or make 6 people work 60hr/week jobs for slightly more
pay? At least with the 40hr/week job, you'd still have some energy left to
get a second job to suppliment your income.
Deb
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