If you’re between the ages of 18 and 24, enjoy working with children, love the great outdoors, and want to earn and save money this summer, consider working as a counselor at Friendly Pines Camp in Prescott.
This renowned, long-running sleepaway camp offers one of the highest staff salaries in the U.S. Counselors earn $697 per week and $6,274 for nine weeks. That includes room and board and three meals a day. The average weekly salary for a summer camp counselor in the U.S. is $520.
Applicants must be able to pass a background check, drug test, and be vaccinated.
Here are more details about Friendly Pines Camp’s summer employment:
• Employment dates: At minimum, May 22 - July 24. Some activity positions will require additional weeks.
• Days off are a mix of evenings (5 - 11 p.m.) and 24-hour days off. Counselors also receive on-site free time most days.
• A desire to work with children is extremely important, and specific activity skills are useful but not as important as folks’ ability to work long, difficult days with their peers
and children.
• Applicants must be at least 18 years old and need to have completed at least one year of post-high school experience (college, work, etc.)
