[Editors] paying proofreaders

[Debbie Levey]

	Now that my best proofreader has left for college, I hired 
two grad students to look at my latest newsletter. For catching 
mistakes in 16 pages of text-dense copy, I gave them each $20 cash in 
an envelope ("Chicago style"), from my own pocket. When I asked my 
department if the newsletter account could pay for proofreading in 
the future, a storm of obfuscation and recrimination immediately 
developed from a turbulent personality with influence. (Basically, 
how dare I take initiative to get something done, when it should have 
been bureaucratically stalled for months.)

	From your collective wisdom and experience, I would like to know:

1) is $20 too little, OK, or too much for 1 to 2 hours of grad student time?

2) how do your departments manage to pay students for jobs like this?

Debbie