we do it for anyone who volunteers, students, and and staff as well. You want to make sure at years end that these people dont get overlooked at volunteer recogintion time. we actually have a junior high student whos mom is involved and she has helped at every event last year, to the point she sctual planned and carried out her own craft table for craft night. ALot of times kids do it for fun and then there are ones who need that community service time!
"When you stop learning you stop growing."
On the volunteer hours logged, do you include the hours that the students put in? We have several students that volunteer too. We had students pass out the ice cream at the ice cream social while the adult volunteers worked the PTO table. At Movie Night, they bag the pop corn and keep the soda cooler stocked, help with clean up at the Movie Night, Chili supper, and serve the teachers and staff at the appreciation dinner, help with the set up and clean up. Shouldn't these students hours be logged also since they are working as hard as the adults?
Also, do you log hours for the meetings. I feel that anyone who gives up their time to come to the meeting should have that time counted. Please advise! Thanks!
Keep in mind there are lots of factors that go into that variable. As someone else indicated, it's an average of a lot of different potential jobs/salary levels.
Also - this number is "value", not hourly rate. We need to keep in mind that to figure what it costs to have anyone do one hour of work isn't simply their weekly wage divided by 40. True costs (value) include a proportionate amount the overhead for that employee: benefits, training, etc.
Wow...I love the computer tracking system, I will have to looko into that.....Funny how $17 can sound like too much...I would gladly paid the trouble makers $17 hour to stay out!
Our trouble maker has finally moved....ding dong the witch is dead...or better yet off to sunny CA!
