I Can't Believe You Made Me Do Math

By EHHHHH GABBAGOOL

If every Law Review student editor were paid $18/hr,*

that’s $180 per week for 10 hours of work

(a conservative estimate).

One semester is 15 weeks.

So that’s $2700 for one semester, $5400 for a year.

If there are 63 students on Law Review, 

then the price tag is $340,200 for one year of full staff.

For an academic journal worth a third of a million per year—

a value generated almost entirely by students—

how much of that value do the workers get back?

$0

                           (for almost everyone)

Every editor must work 3 semesters.

So I have another question:

Would you pay $8100 for an extra line on your resume?

* the wage for the handful of people on Law Review who are paid