In those districts, a single teacher will never be able to dedicate less than 30 percent of their income to homeowner costs, even at the
top of the salary schedule.
A district could easily assert that it should be exempt from any
sort of salary schedule so that it could pay good teachers more.
Respondents are assumed to start at the
bottom of the salary schedule at age 25, and increase one step for each year that they participate in the workforce (according to my definition).
Act 10, passed in 2011, limited collective bargaining and allowed school districts to get
rid of salary schedules included in union contracts that awarded pay increases based only on years spent teaching.
Nearly every school district in the nation uses the same
type of salary schedule to pay its teachers — a schedule with «steps» and «lanes» that pays based on years in the classroom, and you automatically get paid more if you have a master's degree or higher.
Ninety - six percent of the 112 major U.S. school districts included in the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) Teacher Contract Database pay teachers with MA degrees more than those with BA degrees, with an average difference of $ 3,205 in the first year of teaching, $ 4,176 in the fifth year, and $ 8,411 at the
top of the salary schedule.
[9] Buying a house in most of the districts in our sample (62 percent) is within reach of two married teachers within 5 years, even if they start at the
bottom of the salary schedule, as opposed to the 20 percent of districts where this is possible on a single starting teacher's salary.