All, Thanks for the feedback. I'll forward all of the comments - which brought up important things to ask - to my former student.
I apologize that my question was somewhat short on details, but I gave you most of what I had to work with. The student graduated from our undergrad PSYC program a year ago and is currently in a Master's program at our institution. It was her grad advisor who approached me and he didn't really have any specifics. He's a friend, so I told him I'd find out what I could. Best to all, Larry ************************************************************ Larry Z. Daily Associate Professor of Psychology Department of Psychology Stutzman-Slonaker Hall, Room 102-D Shepherd University Shepherdstown, West Virginia 25443 Phone: (304) 876-5297 email: [email protected] WWW: http://webpages.shepherd.edu/LDAILY/index.html Adam's prize was open eyes His sentence was to see - The Dreamer - Tom Rush Once you've been in Serenity you never leave. You just learn to live there. - Zoe to Simon in a deleted scene from the pilot episode of Firefly ________________________________________ From: Mike Palij [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2016 9:08 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Michael Palij Subject: RE:[tips] What Would You Pay for SPSS Help On Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:25:35 +0000, Larry Daily wrote: > Hello, all! > > One of my former students has been approached by >another unit on campus for help working with SPSS. >Rather than offer her an amount for the work, they asked >what she thinks she ought to be paid. She came to me >to ask what a reasonable amount would be. It has been >a long time since I got paid for doing SPSS consulting >(and I was doing it for fellow grad students, so I just went >for beer money), so I'm not sure what to tell her. Any >thoughts or recommendations? A few points: (1) There is no one "size fits all solution" to this question. Your question as stated is comparable to asking "What should I pay for a therapist or a tutor?" (2) As implied by the first point, you are vague on: (a) the level of SPSS knowledge needed for the job (data cleaning and descrptive statistical analys should get paid less than doing General Linear Modeling [which would include ANOVA and various forms of regression, multivarite procedures such as factor analysis, etc.]) (b) As strange as this may sound, you don't identify whether the student in an undergraduate or graduate or post-graduate. An undergraduate with limited experience should get paid less than a graduate strudent with an MA with more extensive experience (consider a clinicial psychology student with an MA in in their area -- this consitutes a "psychologist" in some states, hence a professional who can command a low level professional pay rate) or advanced grad student with more extensive experience or post-PhD with both graduate work in statistics AND experience doing statistical analysis on research projects). This boils down to the question "is the student an amateur or a professional?" The pay rate will depend upon the answer. (c) As Chris Green pointed out in his response, some researchers have limited funds allocated for someone to do statistical analysis or, more generally "data analysis" (the difference being is that a pro doesn't expect to do data cleaning because this is a labor intensive effort that can be done by someone with a lower level of skill). However, such people might not want to disclose how much money they have to pay for a variety of reasons (leverage in being able to pay the lowest rate for the most work being one). So, the issue of what kind of work, how much work, over what time period (days, weeks, months, years; people with limited statistical analysis experience always underestimate the amount of time to do the work because they often don't have a clue about the problems that can arise once that the analyses begin -- even data cleaning can take longer than expected depending upon how it was collected and whether it needs to be verified/checked for odd/missing data). I'm an old guy and didn't get terminal access to statistical programs until I got into graduate school back in the 1970s. In my second year my "teaching assignment" (TA) was serving as a consultant/advisor for the social science data lab, a computer lab statistical service that catered to psychology, sociology, poli sci, and other departments. My rate of pay was fixed at the graduate TA rate for this year but after a year's experience (as well as increase in expertise; I became the local expert in BMDP), that became the base rate I would charge for helping with statistical analysis/programming. When other graduate students needed help, I would assess their ability to pay (if they had a full-time job, I'd figure out some hourly rate; for grad students on a stipend I'd go pro bono and treat the situation as a teaching opportunity). After taking several graduate courses in statistics and experience with statistical analysis on various research projects (often in clinical psych or education), I could ask for a professional rate. So, what is the level of knowledge and experience of the student? Are they amateur or professional? All that being said, you might want to pose your question to the SPSS mailing list. 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