PSE Zone 13 Survey, CWU Responses
sleep cycle, and my relationships with my wife and my children. And I've started wondering if I need to do it again. The medical insurance is a benefit. With high deductible and low pay, I would benefit from not working at all and living on assistance. Minimum wage increases faster than our COLAs do. The gap between minimum wage and my salary decreases each year. If this continues, people won’t need to go to college because they will make more as a minimum wage worker than one who spent 10’s of thousands of dollars on a college degree. When people have retired or left and not been replaced, I have been assigned their duties but no raise. Whole positions that money was saved but zero raise for me to do those duties Please see the value of my work. Please know that secretaries are the glue to the department which trickles down to the students. We are a fun place to learn and grow. Our students have repeatedly told me how important I was to their success. They call me the department Mom. Not because I do everything for them, but rather I support them when they don't know where to turn or just need someone they trust to talk with. It is embarrassing when people starting now (new into the field) with the increased minimum wage will quickly get paid the same as me even though I have been there 9 years more.
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