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Hi, Starting pay for tutors at St. Lawrence is 5.55/hr. This is standard "Pay Grade B." (Four grades, A-D. D at the bottom. Grades are intended to reflect the necessity of background and level of responsibility. EMT's are at the top.) Promotions to new pay-levels happen annually in my office: my assumption is that if I re-hire someone, they're good enough to get a raise. I have the freedom to make such a decision, and then fight out the budget end on my own. In addition, I've just started a program this year of tutor-mentors. I appoint several tutors in different disciplines to a position of somewhat more responsibility: organizing tutor-meetings, assisting with training, being available for procedural or theoretical questions from other tutors, etc... I have a staff, currently, of 45 tutors, 6 of whom are mentors. There are also 4 "contacts": tutors who have been around long enough to know the program and give short presentations about it to faculty, students, and student leaders. Mentors and Contacts are paid in the $6 to $7 range. If I were currently using the crla certification (I just don't have the time, frankly) I would use the leverage of the certification to push for higher wages. Wages aren't the biggest issue, though: students here want to assume higher levels of responsibility as they progress, and want to be able to grow professionally. 10 positions out of a tutor base of roughly 50 seems to allow for enough growth-positions here. (Between students going abroad, losing time to senior projects, and graduating, I only keep about 1 in 5 for longer than two years. I'm hoping, though, that the prospect of growth will attract more students to stay in the job longer.) Steve Runge Academic Skills Coordinator St. Lawrence U. Canton, NY 13617 [log in to unmask]