2. The amount necessary to attract an individual instructor with special qualifications. obtain the services of psychiatrists, it may be necessary to offer a higher compensation than is offered most other types of instructors. In this case, one would be competing for their services not merely with other educational institutions, but with private Patients.
3.The tuition rates the participants can afford to pay. This consideration will greatly influence the rates one can pay instructors, unless there will be outside sources of income with which to subsidize the program. If the participants of a course are to be high-income businessmen who have strong motivation to take the course, then one can probably afford to pay an unusually good instructor at an unusually high rate. On the other hand, if "the clientele is that of a neighborhood settlement house, tuition rates will have to be very low and the rate of compensation for instructors will have to be in Proportion-except that in this case one may be able to interest the "best" instructors in giving courses as a public service.
The question is often raised: Should all instructors be paid at the same rate, or should there be a flexible scale with certain types of instructors receiving higher rates than others? There are some adult educators who feel that the only fair thing to do is to pay all instructors at the same rate, and they criticize scales as promoting a caste system. There are others who feel that one must face the fact that people who have achieved a higher pay scale in their regular work expect a higher rate of compensation than those whose normal income is lower. They point out that it is necessary to pay more to interest a highly trained professional person than to interest a highly competent arts and crafts teacher. Similarly, a psychiatrist will generally demand a higher rate than a psychologist. If a program is to be enriched with this kind of leadership, the pattern of different rates of compensation that has been established in our society may have to be accepted.
If the flexible scale of compensation is adopted, it would probably be advisable to establish quotas for each level of compensation. In a given program the quotas might be twenty instructors at $10 per hour, ten at $15, five at $20, and two at $25. In this way the tendency to move all the instructors toward the top rate would be avoided.