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Bill,

We pay our Youth Teaching Youth students $7-$8/hour for their work in intern
roles.  Their time commitment varies based on the internship they are
working in.  Some are project based and shorter term while others may span
the school year.  Most work in these roles for up to four years.

One of the items you may want to remember to calculate in an expansion mode
is what increase does that, if any, put on time for training and mentoring?
We pay for training and provide mentoring support which is a cost center for
us, however, it is an essential part of the success of our youth program.

Madlyn

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Madlyn Runburg
Director of School Programs
Natural History Museum of Utah
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On 8/23/11 8:08 AM, "Watson, Bill" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> Hi, everyone -
> 
> We are in the process of expanding our youth programming at the National
> Museum of Natural History. In the past, we've offered high school students a
> stipend for their participation in a 6-week Summer Internship and 10-week
> Saturdays-only College Preparation course. As we expand, we're trying to do
> some benchmarking to make sure that the stipends we've been offering are fair
> and competitive with comparable programs.
> 
> If you have a youth program, we'd be very interested in whether or not you
> offer a stipend, and if so, how much it is, for what time commitment, and how
> you came to that figure. We're also interested in the answers to any of the
> questions we should be asking along with these but aren't. :)
> 
> If you're willing to share the information but don't want to do so on the
> list, please feel free to contact me directly at
> [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bill
> 
> Bill Watson, Ed.D.
> Chief of Onsite Learning
> National Museum of Natural History
> Smithsonian Institution
> (202) 633-1127
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