Breaks my heart to hear of the passing of Rondale Moore. One of the many reasons why my conversations with my clients are about anything but the game. Constant reminders that they are more than their sport and there is life after football. Tell your people how special they are.
High school sports were fun 20 years ago.
You could play multiple sports, enjoy your summers, date and have a job.
Nowadays its a full time job for everyone in the family. Travel + summer league + training and workouts.
Make sports fun again.
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I want to wish the athletic trainers all over the nation the best of luck in the future & a BIG THANK YOU for the amazing job u do daily . THIS IS ATHLETIC TRAINERS MONTH - so please take a moment & say thanks to the trainers you know.
Why are AT salaries so low?
1. The legacy community outreach solution which has for over 30 years underpaid athletic trainers as part of their marketing expenses for attracting new patients.
2. The inclusion of ATs in the teacher unions and their contracts with school districts which greatly limits their earning power - due to salary banding which is primarily determined by experience.
The combination of these two is actually keeping salaries down and preventing FT hires.
How?
Specifically, a hospital can no longer afford to hire FT ATs for their outreach because they too are restricted by hospital salary banding.
School district who had been using outreach solution of Hospital now has no healthcare provider.
They have relied on an external resource for 5+ years. Their information base on ATs and their roles today is not adequate.
They publish job with a salary structure that matches union template and requirements around experience which is $15-20K short of avg salary in US for Masters degree WHO is a healthcare provider, not a teacher.
We are seeing this in real time.
I see the biggest issue in the profession right now is PR.
Or lack thereof.
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