Compare Verbal Behavior Center for Autism vs Autism Behavior Consultants

Pros

Friendly employees, small company with opportunity for growth, job is for a good cause, you get to see improvement of clients over time, $0.45/ mi from client to client, willingness to give insurance... even at 30 hr/wk, paid training

Cons

Low starting wage ($16 for direct service, $15 for everything else), low hours (contract only guarantees hours for the first three months- currently offers 20-40 hrs/wk), a lot of office work that is... mind-numbing (finding pictures, cutting, laminating, putting papers in binders, organizing), pretty much have to become rBT (which they don't offer compensation for), a ton of driving (upwards of 2.5 hr/day, 300 mi/week), requires a lot of patients (a lot of noncompliance seen with clients), uncomfortable client settings (you are guaranteed to sweat during summer because they don't put on AC)

Pros

Paid training, opportunities to move up in the company, friendly coworkers, work in schools, homes, and sometimes in the community

Cons

If there’s a client cancel and they don’t have an alternate place to send you, you don’t get paid. Low hours during summer, winter, and spring break.