What is the Package???

[John-in-KC]

How well does your Council attract and retain its staffers for the various Scout Camp programs?

 

Our Council does pretty fair by itself. Depending on the camp, starting salary is from $35 a week to $80 a week. Room, board and laundry are provided (at one camp free machines, at the other Reservation, where we have 3 500 man camps, we have an adult staffer whose only job is bulk laundry). Senior staff gets raises.

 

We authorize each staffer to buy Class A uniform parts at the Scout shop for 25% off retail, tax-free.

 

First issue of T-shirts are free, additional shirts are for $5 a pop.

 

Our biggest retention tool as kids arrive at college years is the staff scholarship program. If a staffer is going to college/vo-tech and successfully fulfills the season, our scholarship endowment guarantees no less than $500 for a junior college/vo-tech and $1000 for a university.

 

The staff is still not in it for the money, but the package helps us keep folks who otherwise could pull $500 a week or more at a host of jobs away from summer camp positions.

 

What does your Council do?