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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I worked for one summer as a counselor at a day camp and made something like $700 total for 8 weeks.  However, when I had to take a day off because I got pinkeye from one of the campers, my pay was docked by minimum wage for the day.  I greatly appreciated the tips that I received but also decided that I wasn't going to ever work as a camp counselor again.  While I enjoyed it, this was a camp for wealthy families and it was ridiculous that I was being paid virtually nothing for my labor.

If you want your kids to have well-staffed camps, you can either tip the counselors or pressure the camps to pay counselors better.[/quote]

Most camp counselors at the 6+ week sleepaway camps were former campers, love camp, and have wealthy families themselves.  No one works as a summer camp counselors for the money.  They do it for the experience.  I’d rather have a staff of former campers that truly love being there and want to be there.  Recruiting counselors via high tips from wealthy parents is not how you find quality staff [/quote]

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