Getting Paid
How & What & When
Your Salary & Benefits
Paying you is what we want to do! Our pay is based on position, experience, and certifications relevant to your job.
Virtually all employees receive room and board, access to laundry services, and meals during camp programs as benefits (approximately an additional $275-$300/week). In addition, we offer a GRP sponsored WFA course the weekend prior to staff training. We do not offer travel stipends for staff who choose to commute into camp.
Here are some basic starting salary guidelines. We raise pay based on returning status, experience, certifications, or additional responsibilities.
Mentors: $400 per week
Counselors: $300 per week
Expedition Leaders: $450 per week
Kitchen Assistants: $300 per week / $15 per hour
SEE Support Staff: $350 per week
Full-time Intern (program, expedition, etc.): $350 per week
Activity Leaders: Staff will receive an additional $25 per week for activities requiring extra time and prep work. For example: fly fishing, arts and crafts, and climbing.
Certifications
At a minimum all counselors must be CPR and FA certified, Mentors must have Wilderness First Aid, and Expedition Leaders must have Wilderness First Responder. These certifications must be valid through August 2022. You do not need these certifications to apply, but you must have acquired them by the start date of May 30, 2023. GRP is offering a WFA course the weekend prior to training for staff needing to meet this requirement.
Staff can also increase their salary (+$15/week each) by attaining any of these additional certifications. Click the buttons below to find out more.
Documents
We Need
Before we can pay you, we need to have the following documents filled out completely and submitted two weeks in advance. For more information, visit our paperwork guide. We will send you a login for Paychex and you can fill these out digitally.
Photocopy of ID documents listed on I-9 form page 3*
Current & Former Staff:
To access your paycheck history, tax information, and other details, please visit our payroll contractor’s website at www.myapps.paychex.com. If it’s your first time logging in, you will register a new account with them.
Having trouble logging in or creating an account? We can provide you with lots of moral support, but we can’t get you logged in. You’ll want to get logging-in help from Paychex here.
Questions about your paycheck? Check the information below about our pay cycle before you contact us.
Pay Dates & Amounts
You earn your salary on a weekly basis. However, our payroll company deposits your paycheck on the 15th of each month.
It’s a little more complicated, too. Your paycheck never includes the week immediately prior. That means your paycheck will always be one week off.
If we don’t have all the forms from above completed a week in advance of your first payday, you will miss it. Gimme those forms!
Here are the pay dates for our 2024 Season.
Spring 2023 Paydays
May 1
SEE Staff: Two weeks of SEE pay plus Staff Training pay
May 15
SEE Staff: Three weeks of SEE pay
Summer 2024 Paydays
June 15
Summer staff! You will receive your first paycheck on this day. Because of a lot of weird timing situations, the amount on this paycheck depends on your role at camp.
Mentors and counselors: Two weeks of summer pay
Kitchen staff and interns: Two weeks of summer pay
Expedition Leaders: About half of staff training stipend
July 15
Four weeks of summer pay: session 2 and 2 weeks of session 3 pay
August 15
Four weeks of summer pay: 1 week of session 3, session 4, and 1 week of session 5/6
September 15
Final week of session 6
Fall 2022 Paydays
September 15
SEE Staff: Two weeks of SEE pay
October 1
SEE Staff: Two weeks of SEE pay
October 15
SEE Staff: Two weeks of SEE pay