Rates & Sliding Scale - Sylas Supports

Please note that Collaborative Consulting with individuals within the Disability Community is to be an expected practice within Sylas Supports, LLC. Co-Consultant fees vary, though also are adjusted to the trust based sliding scale with no questions. Please read this document in full when determining your rate.

What is a sliding scale?

A sliding scale is a tool for building economic justice, and it requires your active participation. If a sliding scale is implemented effectively, everyone pays a similar percentage of their income for the same products or services. A wide range of payment options across the scale promotes broader accessibility, while insuring fair compensation to the producer. Paying according to one’s available resources creates a more equitable system for pricing of products and services.

This scale is intended to be a map, inviting each person to take inventory of their financial resources and look deeper at their levels of privilege or systemic barriers. It is a way to challenge the classist and capitalistic society we live in and work towards economic justice as a community.

Sliding scales are often based on individual income levels, with people of higher incomes paying more. However, many factors complicate and affect our financial status. Some groups of people have costs that the larger population does not. Others have access to resources that are not always reflected in their lifestyle choices and income levels. Please consider both your class background and earning power when choosing your price.

Thank you to Little Red Bird Botanicals, The Elemental Self and Kelly McCarthy of Attic Apothecary for the above articulation.

How this Sliding Scale works

This sliding scale works through your active participation in determining where you fall in the scale, which is based on trust, honesty and accountability.

How to determine your cost for our Services

Read this page and the following visual models and bullet-pointed maps to locate yourself on the sliding scale
Based on your location in the spectrum of financial privilege, choose the fair price you wish to pay, which will be inserted into your new Sylas Supports Agreement. Discount brackets are explained below these following graphics and bullet points:

Qualifications for Economic Justice Sliding Scale

THIS MIGHT BE APPLICABLE TO YOU IF YOU ARE: One or multiple identities within marginalized communities Unemployed Employed with income less than $18k per year A full-time student Not a US Citizen or from a 1st Immigrant Family

MIGHT BE APPLICABLE TO YOU IF YOU HAVE: Financial responsibility to support family members/others High debt No access to family support No access to healthcare

Above you’ll find a graph illustrated with three bottles. The bottle on the far left is full of green, representing the upper end of the sliding-scale spectrum. Folks who identify most with the statements in the far left bottle qualify to pay for services at the upper end of our sliding scale. The middle bottle represents folks who sometimes can pay for the upper end of the sliding scale, sometimes the middle, and sometimes the bottom half (depending on how many sliding scale options are available). The bottle on the far right represents the lowest end of the scale and folks who qualify to purchase services from the bottom of our price spectrum.

Top of the Scale (the left bottle):

I am comfortably able to meet all of my basic* needs
I may have some debt but it does not prohibit attainment of basic needs
I own my home or property OR I rent a higher-end property
I own or lease a car
I am employed or do not need to work to meet my needs
I have regular access to health care
I have access to financial savings
I have an expendable** income
I can always buy new items
I can afford an annual vacation or take time off

Middle of the Scale (the middle bottle):

I may stress about meeting my basic needs but still regularly achieve them
I may have some debt but it does not prohibit attainment of basic needs
I own or lease a car
I am employed
I have access to health care
I might have access to financial savings
I have some expendable income
I am able to buy some new items & I thrift others
I can take a vacation annually or every few years without financial burden

Bottom of the Scale (the right bottle):

I frequently stress about meeting basic needs & don’t always achieve them
I have debt and it sometimes prohibits me from meeting my basic needs
I rent lower-end properties or have unstable housing
I do not have a car and/or have limited access to a car but I am not always able to afford gas
I am unemployed or underemployed
I qualify for government assistance including food stamps & health care
I have no access to savings
I have no or very limited expendable income
I rarely buy new items because I am unable to afford them
I cannot afford a vacation or have the ability to take time off without financial burden

* Basic Needs include food, housing, health care, and transportation.
** Expendable Income might mean you are able to buy coffee or tea at a shop, go to the movies or a concert, buy new clothes, books, and similar items each month, etc.

CONSIDER INVESTING IN THE LIST PRICE OR HIGHER ON THE SCALE IF YOU:

Own the home you live in
Have investments, retirement accounts, or inherited money
Travel for recreation
Have access to family money and resources in times of need
Work part time or are unemployed by choice, including unemployment due to full-time school in a degree-earning program
Are able to repay your student loans, are in repayment or have paid off vour student loans
Have emplover health insurance and/or other insurance and/or other emplover benefits
Have daily reliable transportation
Are able to miss work either for sickness or leisure and are still able to pay next month’s bills
Can travel when needed especially for an unexpected occasion like a family funeral or a family funeral or emergency
Work part time or are unemployed by choice, including unemployment
Due to full-time school in a degree-earning program
Have a relatively high degree of earning power due to level of education (or gender and racial privilege, class background, etc.) Even if you are not currently exercising your earning power, I ask you to recognize this as a choice.

CONSIDER INVESTING LESS ON THE SCALE IF YOU:

Are eligible for public assistance
Have medical expenses not covered by insurance
Have immigration-related expenses
Are a refugee, migrant or asylum-seeker
Are undocumented
Are an elder with limited financial support
Are an unpaid community organizer
Have significant debt (not debt from assets)
Have inherited debt rather than assets
Are unable to work because of a chronic illness or longstanding acute illness
Are a returning citizen who has been denied work due to incarceration history
Experience discrimination in hiring or pay level
Have been cut off from family resources and financial support because you are part of the LGBTQAIPS2+ Community
Living in the US as a Black Human.
Are descended from the Nuuchiu (Ute) People, upon whose unceded land I live as a a White settler in Colorado
Are descended from enslaved people or other Native American/First Nation/Aboriginal/Indiginous Peoples (I acknowledge Much of my privilege has come at the historical and present-day systematized oppression and expense of these Communities).

Thank you to Little Red Bird Botanicals,Kelly McCarthy of Attic Apothecary and Britt Hawthorne’s “Embracing An Equitable Sliding Scale” article for majority of the above bullet points.

The Sliding Scale

The listed price (no discount code) reflects the true cost of the offering or service. This is the cost that the practitioner would charge all students in the absence of a sliding scale. If you find yourself toward the left side of the above financial privilege models, you would not traditionally qualify for sliding scale services. If you are able to pay for “wants” and spend little time worried about securing necessities in your life, you have economic privilege and power in our community. This price is for you.

A discounted price of 10% off: reflects the practitioner’s acknowledgement that paying the full cost would prevent some folks from being able to attend, who do not honestly find themselves reflected in either descriptions for the highest cost or the lowest cost, but are perhaps struggling to conquer debt, build savings or move away from paycheck to paycheck living but have access to steady income and are not spending most of your time thinking about meeting basic needs such as food, shelter, medical care, child care, etc., you belong here. If you, however, can ask others for financial support, such as family members, partners, or friends, use your health savings account (I can easily provide justification for your records), or Medicaid Waiver funding support, please consider using those personal resources before you use the resources of the sliding scale and limit opportunities for others.

The lower price, a discounted price of 20% off: This tier is for folks who find themselves toward the right side of the Green Bottles/lists above. It represents an honest acknowledgment by the practitioner that there are folks whose economic circumstances would prevent them from being a part of classes if there was not a deliberate opportunity made for them to access services at a cost that is reflective of their economic realities. If you struggle to maintain consistent access to needs such as health care, housing, food, child care, and are living paycheck to paycheck, you probably belong here and you deserve a community that honors your price as equal an economic offering as the person who can pay the highest tier. If you, however, can ask others for financial support, such as family members, partners, or friends, use your health savings account (I can easily provide justification for your records), or Medicaid Waiver funding support, please consider using those personal resources before you use the resources of the sliding scale and limit opportunities for others.

The lowest price, a discounted price of 50% off: This price is for folks who fit the description of the above paragraph (of the “lower price”), but who know that even with a 20% discount and payment plan (the tier above), they would not be able to join this offering while still being able to eat healthily, pay their rent, medical bills and other monthly expenses for themselves and/or their families. You deserve a community that honors your price as equal an economic offering as the person who can pay the highest tier. If you, however, can ask others for financial support, such as family members, partners, or friends, use your health savings account (I can easily provide justification for your records), or Medicaid Waiver funding support, please consider using those personal resources before you use the resources of the sliding scale and limit opportunities for others.

Thank you to The Elemental Self for the above articulation

If this bottom tier is still prohibitive, please reach out directly and we will work with you, including extended payment plans and other solutions. We have a limited number of scholarships of “pay what you can” in this tier, and have a waiting list as people move off of this tier.

Service	Rate with 10/20/50% Discounts
Professional Supervision: Music Therapy	100 90 80 50
1:1/1 Single Small Team (under 4 people)Team Training Consult per Hour (quarter hour increments) with Angie	150 135 120 75
1:1/1 Single Small Team (under 4 people)Team Coaching Consult per Hour (quarter hour increments) with ViK	75 67.5 60 37.5
1:1/1 Single Large Team (between 5-10 people)Team Training Consult per Hour (quarter hour increments) with Angie	250 225 200 100
1:1/1 Single Large Team (between 5-10 people)Team Coaching Consult per Hour (quarter hour increments) with ViK	150 135 120 75
Music Therapy Session per Hour (quarter hour increments)	125 112.5 100 62.5
Massage Therapy per hour (quarter hour increments):	110 95 85
Lymphatic Drainage Massage Therapy per hour (quarter hour increments):	TBA in May of 2025125 112.5 100
Reiki Energy Work	90 81 72
Combined Approach (All Massage Techniques and Reiki)	150 135 120
Large Group Trainings (per person) per hour	150 135 120 75
Therapeutic Small Groups (6 and under people) per person per meeting:	50 45 40 25
Therapeutic Large Groups (7 and under 12 people) per person per meeting:	25 22.50 20 12.50
Communication and Body Support Assessment (includes written report):	600 540 480 300

Communication and Body Support Assessment (without written report; with written recommendations):	400 360 320 200
Organizations and Corporations (an hour)	200 180 160 100
Academia and Non-Profits (an hour)	150 135 120 75
Angie Sylas Daily Rate (per diem):	1500 1350 1200 750
ViK Stohl Daily Rate (per diem):	1200 1080 960 600

Travel for in person support

Also Includes:

Travel Support: Plane Ticket (if applicable), Gas, Car Rental (if applicable)
Lodging (ADA access needed)