Informative post re: salary expectations

[lily48slp]

Hi all, 

I wanted to share this post that I found on Reddit (in the SLP subreddit, which I highly recommend checking out btw) that is impacting how I'm looking at the loans I'm facing for grad school: https://www.reddit.com/r/slp/comments/5awlfz/frustrated_husband_of_a_slp_with_some_questions/?st=j0y2lvwq&sh=a2f635fb

One of the most important takeaways for me was realizing that the salary stats we've all referenced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics are skewed for SLPs in schools. Their reports take an hourly wage and multiply it as if it were a full-time, yearly salary (when it's actually a school-year salary).  As one response mentions, "the BLS data is skewed because school salaries are being annualized. In other words, a 45k salary working roughly 1600 hours a year looks like 58k once it's been annualized using the 2080 work hours per year factor." Similar problems are mentioned for some other settings where SLPs are paid by the visit.

(Caution: clicking link may induce anxiety!! But I hope you found it as helpful as I did.)

[ElKel87]

This is a great post, thanks for sharing!

I also wanted to share some of the salary surveys from ASHA (which I feel like I've anxiously read a hundred times ). The first site has a list of all of the surveys and then I pulled out the two most recent for health care and schools. They have one that breaks the school salary down into an hourly format.

http://www.asha.org/Careers/Salary-Data/

http://www.asha.org/uploadedFiles/2015-SLP-Health-Care-Survey-Annual-Salaries.pdf

http://www.asha.org/uploadedFiles/2016-Schools-Survey-SLP-Salaries-Wages.pdf