Raise GT Counselor Salaries
Georgia Tech Administration
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GT Counseling Center’s salaries are very low compared to private practitioners.
Georgia Tech’s Counseling Center’s salaries are typically around $70-90k[1]
Private practitioners in the field make salaries around $93k-120k[2]
Most psychologists & psychiatrists from GT’s Counseling Center could be making significantly higher salaries in private practice
Such low salaries lead to high turnover and extreme difficulty filling open positions, with some currently open positions in the Counseling Center having been unfilled for over a year. The Counseling Center staff have been doing an amazing job with the resources they’ve been given, but these issues result in the Counseling Center not having the number of staff to meet the always-urgent mental health needs of the student body.
HR needs to look at salary figures across public AND private sectors when determining counselor salaries.
Currently, HR sets Counseling Center salaries based solely on counselor salaries at other schools in the nation[3]. However, counselor salaries in other schools are also much lower than other options in private practice, and mental health professionals are leaving collegiate mental health in record numbers. HR needs to examine counselor salaries in both the public and private sectors when setting counselor salaries, and budgets need to be expanded to reflect higher salaries.
Join us in calling on Georgia Tech Administration to take students’ mental health seriously and improve campus mental health resources by significantly raising counselor salaries.
[1] https://app.smartsheet.com/b/publish?EQBCT=702d52f64a8c4cc7adb36be2b7755c24
[2] https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Private-Practice-Therapist-Salary
[3] https://careers.gatech.edu/staff-job-descriptions-and-salary-structures
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GT Counseling Center’s salaries are very low compared to those offered to private practitioners. Georgia Tech’s Counseling Center’s salaries typically lie around $70-90k according to GT Human Resources, whereas private practitioners in the field make salaries around $93-120k. Most psychologists & psychiatrists working for GT’s Counseling Center could significantly improve their salaries by working in private practice. Such low salaries lead to high turnover and extreme difficulty filling open positions, and some currently open positions in the Counseling Center having been unfilled for over a year. These detrimental effects result in the Counseling Center lacking the staff it requires to provide students with the mental health resources they need and contributes to the mental health problem we have on campus.
In response, HR needs to account for salary figures across public AND private sectors when determining counselor salaries. Currently, HR determines Counseling Center salaries based solely on counselor salaries at other schools in the nation. However, counselor salaries in other schools are also much lower than other options in private practice, and thus are a poor standard to base GT Counseling Center salaries off of. Mental health professionals are leaving collegiate mental health in record numbers, exemplifying the need for a significant divergence from the average salary offered to campus mental health professionals. HR needs to examine counselor salaries in both the public AND private sectors when determining counselor salaries in order to provide competitive salaries for potential and current employees, and counseling budgets must be expanded by HR to reflect these higher salaries.
Mental health is an extremely pressing and well-known issue on our campus, and campus mental health resources need to be taken seriously by administration. We call on you to improve campus mental health resources by raising counselor salaries to match what mental health professionals could reasonably earn in private practice.