[Editors] paying proofreaders

[Annika Pfluger]

Hi Debbie,

For small "odd jobs" we've given grad students amazon gift 
certificates which gets around some of the payroll paperwork 
headaches.

-Annika


At 12:24 PM -0400 9/12/05, Debbie Levey wrote:
>	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
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