Sliding Scale
Ensuring folks have access to the care they need is a top priority for me.
I believe that being able to care for one's self is a basic human right that unfortunately goes unmet way too often within the dominant culture.
About Sliding Scale
I offer sliding scale for my consultation fees as well as my herbal products. The prices listed in the shopping cart are the middle of the road prices that I need to earn in order to have a self-sustaining business.
Financial planner Hadassah Damien offers the following thoughts on sliding scale. I ask that you examine your ability to pay by considering this graphic and prompts below
Below are two ways to assess yourself: by areas of self-assessment and by groupings of the prompts aligned with economic realities.
Please reach out to me directly if you would like to pay a different price than what is listed in the Offerings section.
Sliding Scale: Self-Assessment
Anything true for you towards the beginning of the list moves you towards the top of the sliding scale, and anything towards the end of the list moves you towards the bottom of the sliding scale
Family assets / roadblocks
- I live mostly or all off unearned / gifted income
- I live partially off unearned income
- My family has many assets, like investments
- I have access and gave it away
- Someone else paid or pays my rent/mortgage
- I can choose to work or not
- I choose to work part time or for less pay since I need less money/have external support
- Family has many assets, like a paid-off house and/or parents have retirement accounts
- Family of origin has assets, like a house they are paying
- I help my family with $
- I support others besides myself on my income
- My family has few assets
- I have no family or access to family
- My family has no assets
Earned assets & debts
- I have high earning power (even if im not exercising it today)
- My career is stable and moving forward
- I have student loans for professional or post-secondary education in my current field that I work in
- I have student loans and most people in my family have higher education
- I have a graduate degee
- Someone in my family explained how careers work
- I have a bachelors degree
- I am struggling to pay more than minimums on debt
- I have student loans and I was among the first in my family to go to college
- Career? What career?
- Currently accruing survival credit card debt
Privilege & roadblocks
- I have a degree(s) without having had loans.
- I choose to go out to eat or drink weekly (or more).
- My race, ethnicity, skin color or gender doesn’t impact my income
- I can cover my basic needs + some extras regularly
- I’m able bodied
- I can cover my basic needs regularly
- I give unpaid volunteer time to community
- My race, ethnicity, skin color or gender(s) does impact my income
- I have non-optional health care costs to cover
- I’m sick or disabled and that impacts my ability to work / earn money.
- I struggle to cover basic needs regularly
Income
- Employed make over $125k
- OR I make a high income relative to my home’s average income
- Employed, make over $85k
- Employed, make $60-85k
- OR I make a middle income relative to my home’s average income
- Employed make $40 – 60k
- Employed, make $25-40k
- OR I make a low income relative to my home’s average income
- Unemployed with UI or employed marginally
- Unemployed + no UI– employed less than marginally
Sliding Scale: Self-Assessment
Based on economic realities
Consider paying on the high/supporter side if many of the following are true:
- Employed make over $125k OR I make a high income relative to my home’s average income
- I have a degree(s) without having had loans.
- I have high earning power (even if im not exercising it today)
- I live partially, mostly or all off unearned / gifted income
- My family has plentiful assets, like investments
- I recieved a large (over $50k) amount of money and gave/give it away
- Someone else paid or pays my rent/mortgage
- I can choose to work or not
- I choose to work part time or for less pay since I need less money/have external support
Consider paying the full fee if many of the following are true:
- Employed, make over $85k OR I make a middle income relative to my home’s average income
- I choose to go out to eat or drink weekly (or more).
- My race, ethnicity, skin color or gender doesn’t impact my income
- I can cover my basic needs + some extras regularly
- I’m able bodied
- I can cover my basic needs regularly
- I have student loans for professional or post-secondary education in my current field that I work in
- I have student loans and most people in my family have higher education
- I have a graduate degee and am paying off my loans
- Someone in my family explained how careers work
- My career is stable and moving forward
- Family has many assets, like a paid-off house and/or parents have retirement accounts
- Family of origin has assets, like a house they are payin
Consider paying on lower part of the sliding scale if many of the following are true:
- Employed, make $60-85k
- Employed make $40 – 60k
- I’m sick or disabled and that impacts my ability to work / earn money.
- I give unpaid volunteer time to community
- My race, ethnicity, skin color or gender(s) does impact my income
- I have non-optional health care costs to cover
- I have a bachelors degree and am paying off my loans still
- I am struggling to pay more than minimums on debt
- I have student loans and I was among the first in my family to go to college
- I help my family with $
- I support others besides myself on my income
- My family has few assets
- I have no family or access to family
- My family has no assets
Consider looking for free / alternative resources if many of the following are true:
- Employed, make $25-40k or I make a low income relative to my home’s average income
- Unemployed with UI or employed marginally
- Unemployed + no UI– employed less than marginally
- I struggle to cover basic needs regularly
- Career? What career?
- Currently accruing survival credit card debt
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