Scope: This document outlines the guidelines that Library Technical Services student supervisory staff should follow when considering raises for student assistants.
Contact: Lisa Maybury
Unit: Receiving & Government Documents
Date last updated: 07/10/2018
Date of next review: July 2019
Current Student Hourly Wage Scale
A. Current Student Hourly Wage Scale
Grade Level I Min. Wage = $11.10 Max. Wage = $12.85
Grade Level II Min. Wage = $11.35 Max. Wage = $14.15
Grade Level III Min. Wage = $11.95 Max. Wage = $15.70
Grade Level IV Min. Wage = $13.10 Max. Wage = $20.85
B. Raise Guidelines
To be competitive with other departments, LTS student supervisors will add 2.5% to the above minimum hiring wage for all new and returning students. For instance, Grade Level I will start at $11.38/hr, a Grade Level II will start at $11.63/hr, etc. Students returning after a full year of service (2 semesters) will receive an additional 3% merit increase that year and each subsequent year that they work in LTS.
LTS senior management (SMT) prefer merit increases be limited to 3%. If a supervisor feels that a particular student deserves more, they will need the approval of SMT.
Supervisors may choose to hire students at a higher initial pay rate, and some factors that may influence this decision include:
a.) The position may require training and/or supervision of fellow students, or the responsibility to work unsupervised for much of the time.
b.) The candidate brings relevant experience or skills/knowledge to the position, and requires less training.
c.) The position may require a late-night schedule, or traveling to a far end of campus, and the library would like to provide incentive.
d.) The desire to maintain the same (or better) pay-level if a student comes from (or concurrently holds) a different job.
For more information on the appropriate tasks associated with each pay-grade level, see: http://studentemployment.cornell.edu/jobs/wages-and-classifications/student-job-grade-levels
C. LHR Guidelines
All of the above forms can be found at the Library Human Resources website (http://www.library.cornell.edu/Adminops/libhumres/studentemployment.html)