<p>I was just wondering about how many hours per week of work study your kids FA package includes? </p>
<p>Looking at the dollar amount, it seems like they are planning on DS working about 15 to 17 hours a week depending on the exact rate his job pays. Does that seem like a reasonable amount of time for a student to work and still have time for studies and some EC's here and there?</p>
<p>That seems like a lot of hours to me, especially first year when he is getting settled. Are you just making an assumption about hourly pay rates? D1 made $7.90 an hour in her campus work study job, not sure what others make. D1 did just inform me that nude models on her campus make $12 an hour, but she thinks nude modeling is not a work study job. :)</p>
<p>That sounds like a lot of hours, but a lot depends on the kind of job. Some jobs allow simultaneous study time. Examples include the dorm desk clerk (checking ids at locked door), some libary jobs, phone switchboard (if not busy) etc.)</p>
<p>Ds’s school limits freshmen to eight hours a week. You get more in subsequent years.</p>
<p>S1 school did not want kids to work at all 1st 2 quarters after that, max of 8 hours a week, next year it went to max of 15 hours/week. S was luck got a job paying $18/hr, kept his hours down to 6 per week.</p>
<p>He will be a sophomore, but last year’s WS was eliminated by outside scholarships so he hasn’t had anything to compare to yet . </p>
<p>I was guessing anywhere from min. wage to 10/hour to get my estimates. It just seemed a little high to me. I think I estimated the weeks/semester wrong and that is why it seems so high.</p>
<p>My work study job has a max of 20 hours that will be reimbursed. I think my first work-study job, I averaged about 15 hours per week. Maybe more? My current one is normally 8 but I often work 16 or 24 hour weeks when covering shifts. It’s an off-campus non profit so it works a little differently than an on-campus job.</p>
<p>8-12 hours per week seems about typical and manageable for work-study jobs.</p>
<p>D2’s work study job (darkroom monitor) was 5-10 hours per week, with minimal task requirements. She also worked security patrol, which didn’t allow for multitasking, but was easy work.</p>
<p>She also supplemented those jobs with paid positions as an usher and nursery school aide (non workstudy); both paid better. She could get some light reading done as an usher (but found she often preferred to enjoy the show at least one night). The nursery school was fun but she ended up catching every virus from the kids, so gave that one up.</p>
<p>My work study award was 800 dollars so at 5.15 per hour I was allowed to work about 160 hours a year for both semesters. This amounted to roughly 6 or so hours a week. What I liked to do was work about 9-10 per week and then I would have used up my allotment prior to finals and would stop working for the last 3 weeks or so, giving me plenty of time to study.</p>
<p>My rising senior’s work study is 8-10 hours per week. But it varies alot from one school to another. She was also admitted at a UC, and they offered work study which would have required about 20 hours per week at minimum wage-ish pay. I thought that was way too much for a freshman.</p>
<p>It all depends on the job. I always Liked to work the 10pm-1am shift because it was slow and I could do homework while I was there. I would have worked it every day of the week if my work study would have covered it all.</p>
<p>Work study amount is at most about $3000 per year. Most ws jobs pay $9-$12 per hour.
3000/9 = 333 hours/year. 333/33 weeks ~ 10 hour per week. Both my kids get $12 per hour.</p>
<p>Students should increase work hours during weeks that don’t have scheduled classes.</p>
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<p>Maybe where your kids go to school, but where I do, most ws jobs are at/near minimum wage (7.40 here).</p>
<p>I make over $12 at my non-ws job and I make more than pretty much anyone I know my age. It varies hugely by state and even city within the state.</p>
<p>Yes, each state has a minimum wage.
[U.S</a>. Department of Labor - Wage and Hour Division (WHD) - Minimum Wage Laws in the States](<a href=“State Minimum Wage Laws | U.S. Department of Labor”>State Minimum Wage Laws | U.S. Department of Labor)</p>
<p>MA and CA minimum wage is $8.
Minimum federal wage is $7.25. If you get ws jobs from professors using federal grants then you will get better deals.</p>
<p>Work study $ are a cap not a floor. There is usually no guarantee of kid even getting a job or one with that many hours. It’s just how much they qualify for based on FAFSA. (my understanding, anyway)</p>