Is $12 an hour good pay for college students

Hi I’m a recent college graduate with two bachelors degrees and a certification in business. i don’t have a ton of prior work experience, but I had a summer internship and a part time college job. I have been looking for work, and found a part time position at a hospital with a pay of $12 an hour, with the potential for a 4% increase after a year of work. I’m not sure whether for my qualifications this is appropriate pay. I wanted $15 an hour so I’m a little disappointed. However it’s been difficult finding positions that will accept a new graduate. Should I accept the offer or is it not enough for the pay? I’m trying to gauge.

Thanks!

• 13 years ago 07/06/2009 7:09pm EDT

  What's a solid amount over a 4 month period???

• 13 years ago 07/06/2009 7:43pm EDT

  College student: $16,000

  High school student: $0

• 13 years ago 07/06/2009 8:00pm EDT

  sharts! wrote:

  College student: $16,000

  High school student: $0

  4000$ per month? really?

• 13 years ago 07/06/2009 8:19pm EDT

  $4000 a month is a high number to aim for if you are in college.

  I guess if you had a good internship (at least $25 an hour) and worked 40 hrs a week you would hit that number but how many college students have a solid intership like that? Especially with a shitty economy right now.

  If you are in HS and dont have a job, you should get one. Anyone over the age of 14 should at least work part-time to get some experience.

• 13 years ago 07/06/2009 8:25pm EDT

  I came close to 4k a month working construction over college summers. That was working a 50-55 hour week usually Maybe 3600 a month, but it didnt leave much time, and hardly any energy, for running.

• 13 years ago 07/06/2009 8:38pm EDT

  Work wrote:

  I came close to 4k a month working construction over college summers. That was working a 50-55 hour week usually Maybe 3600 a month, but it didnt leave much time, and hardly any energy, for running.

  And that probably wasn't this summer. The earlier quote of $16,000 is probably more than 95% of college students will make, or have a realistic chance to make, this summer. This is especially true in the current economy.

• 13 years ago 07/06/2009 8:41pm EDT

  Seems like even $8,000 would be above average. Sure there are exceptions, but it's not realistic to think that most college students will find a 40-hour per week job paying more than $12/hour.

• 13 years ago 07/06/2009 8:51pm EDT

  "Sure there are exceptions, but it's not realistic to think that most college students will find a 40-hour per week job paying more than $12/hour."

  Hell, I'd die to be making $12/hour at age 40.

• 13 years ago 07/06/2009 9:04pm EDT

  typical adult LR poster wrote:

  "Sure there are exceptions, but it's not realistic to think that most college students will find a 40-hour per week job paying more than $12/hour."

  Hell, I'd die to be making $12/hour at age 40.

  Exactly. Many college students are having trouble finding jobs this summer. Most I have talked to are taking whatever they can find including Subway, burgers etc.. I was implying that $12/hour was probably at the high end for most, excluding some outliers and high level, junior/senior type internships.

• 13 years ago 07/06/2009 9:07pm EDT

  if i made over $2000 this summer that would be great...

• 13 years ago 07/06/2009 9:13pm EDT

  If you don't have a summer job by now, take whatever you can get and don't worry what other people are making. But study something useful. If you don't make over $100k by the time you are 30, you are either lazy or stupid or both (the same thing if you ever find yourself unemployed after college).

• 13 years ago 07/06/2009 9:22pm EDT

  Or maybe you just care about other things more than money.

• 13 years ago 07/06/2009 9:26pm EDT

• 13 years ago 07/06/2009 11:19pm EDT

  Im making ~3k a month, but im working a hellish amount with manual labor. And yes,it is tough to find the energy to run and work that much but its good money and during school I'll have way more energy.

• 13 years ago 07/06/2009 11:53pm EDT

  $16,000 ($55,000 per year) over the course of a summer is more than a typical college graduate makes let alone as a summer student.

  $12/hr is definitely at the upper end for summer students. With the exception of internships most would love to have that pay.

  You are arrogant and/or stupid if you think that anybody not making over $100k by the time they reach the age of thirty is either lazy, stupid or both.

• 13 years ago 07/07/2009 1:33am EDT

  For what it's worth, I'm going into my fourth year of undergrad and getting $5500 for a two month research contract. So $17.19/hour.

  Before I started the contract though I did some wage work for another professor at $9/hour with lots of overtime. I'll probably do that again for the last month of summer actually.

• 13 years ago 07/07/2009 3:55am EDT

  Waiting tables in NYC: $200-300 a night.

  Waiting tables in rural Nebraska: $20-30 a night.

  "Solid" depends on where you are and what you are doing.

• 13 years ago 07/07/2009 6:21am EDT

  Gov't pays around 13.50/hr in DC (due to locality) for a college student w/2 yrs college under his/her belt.

  DC gets one of the highest cost of living adjustments as well so...yeah, that's how much a rising junior should expect. Not many corps will pay that much for a summer student.

• 13 years ago 07/07/2009 6:52am EDT

  I will be a sophmore in college in the fall and from my experience most of this info is false. It took me over a month just to find a second job this summer, I applied everywhere. I was working a minimum wage job ($8 in massachusetts) for the month of june that was only giving me about 10 hrs per week. the economy is awful right now. i then found a second job as a camp counselor which i only got because they needed college students. now i am making about $300 a week off of 40 hrs of 2 minimum wage jobs. Since my counseling job is only 6 weeks long I wont even make $1500 off of it. I will be lucky to save $2000 this summer.

• 13 years ago 07/07/2009 5:51pm EDT

  finished 1 year of college and my summer job is lifeguarding at the town club where I get $12.50/hour for 40 hours a week

  However, the majority of my friends (18-19) have barely managed to land part-time work...At first i thought they were just being lazy but now after weeks of summer have gone by i'm starting to believe the jobs just aren't out there now

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