Editing Youth Guard (section)

===Employment===
The Youth Guard employs approximately thirty thousand individuals across the United States. The organization also employs a small number of capes (less than 100), most of which are capes that used to be protected by the Youth Guard. These Youth Guard capes mainly attend events and reach out to troubled capes on the organization's behalf. It is widely seen as a retirement position among capes.<ref>Estimated 30,000 employees as of 2012.<br><br>Less than 100 employees are capes, and those cape employees are primarily those who were protected by the YG who now do events and reach out to troubled capes on behalf of the YG.  This is widely seen as a retirement position.<br><br>Of the program’s expenses, roughly 14% go to administrative expenses, 41% to fundraising expenses, and 45% to mission statement expenses.  Employee ratios roughly correlate to these numbers; administrative staff and employees coordinating efforts, PR managers and community outreach, and lawyers.<br><br>[Table showcasing various types of employees and their pay]<br><br>The differences in these employees are largely immaterial from a WD standpoint aside from some interpersonal skills and education.  Resource officers have a slightly higher chance to have a background in law or military and of having a corresponding amount of training; this can help with relating to Wards themselves. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bFLkNlycuTmRJIECK2K5od_3nyPp0koTGmKyzg_CQVM/edit Organization: Youth Guard]</ref>

Youth Guard employment positions include volunteers, outreach workers, lawyers, managers, and resource officers. Resource officers in particular have an important position, going into the PRT and working directly with Wards. Thus, the Youth Guard is ''extremely'' careful about who becomes a resource officer. Some resources officers have a background in law or military, which helps with relating with the Wards they work with.<ref>Recruitment is an ongoing hurdle for the YG, because they need educated, approachable ‘resource officers’ who are capable of standing firm against a three-letter government agency with a great deal of clout, who can work with traumatized and superpowered teenagers and children.  The YG is not subject to all of the same extensive vetting and security procedures that control access to the PRT’s offices and they badly want to keep this the case; having those added restrictions could give the PRT a measure of control over them, shrink YG numbers and hamper recruitment further.  This sets up the tightrope they must walk: recruiting enough resource officers while not recruiting those who would ruin the YG’s reputation, exploit the reduced barrier to access the PRT, or exploit/harm the youth.  They are <u>very</u> careful about who becomes a ‘resource officer’, those with access to Wards, files, and PRT buildings and are frequently reaching out and promoting to new graduates who could become YG officers. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bFLkNlycuTmRJIECK2K5od_3nyPp0koTGmKyzg_CQVM/edit# Organization: Youth Guard]</ref>