Pay Rate for Access Workers Now — PRAWN 🦐

The Pay Rate for Access Workers Now (PRAWN) project came out of a desire to build connection and shared knowledge among access workers in the hopes of establishing an industry standard and raising the bar for the way that access work is materially valued. We hope to build collective power to achieve greater salary/pay transparency and clearer industry standards by mitigating uncertainty about how much to charge for access-related tasks. We hope to make entering into access work more accessible and to ultimately achieve more equitable pay for the community.

This community-based project values access workers’ labor, and acknowledges that we are always more powerful in collaboration with each other. We value the wisdom of disabled people’s embodied experiences and experiences as workers in the field. We recognize that access workers often work in individualized positions and sectors; because of this isolation, we hope to find other means of connecting and working in horizontal relationship.