Lawmakers trashed the old 37 -
step teacher salary schedule for one that contains just six steps and maxes out base salaries at $ 50,000.
Not exact matches
But average
salaries also depend on the distribution of
teachers at each
step on district
salary schedules.
For most of the century just past, and into the current one, school districts have paid their
teachers according to a «single
salary schedule,» a pay scheme that bases an individual
teacher's
salary on two factors: years of experience (
steps) and number of education credits and degrees (lanes).
Three - quarters of districts do not use cash bonuses,
salary increases, or different
steps on the
salary schedule to recruit or retain
teachers to teach in high - need schools.
Nearly two - thirds of districts are not able to offer pay incentives or differentiated pay to
teachers — for example, cash bonuses,
salary increases, or different
steps on the
salary schedule — to reward or recruit
teachers.
41 percent of districts do not use cash bonuses,
salary increases, or different
steps on the
salary schedule to recruit or retain
teachers to teach in fields with shortages.
Then, if those master's degree - holding
teachers got their National Board certification (more
teachers in North Carolina than in any other state hold this credential), they got a 12 percent
salary supplement on top of whatever
step they were at on the M
salary schedule.
Teachers still progressed along the
step - and - lane
salary schedule.
Pay all
teachers in accordance with their experience and what their
step on the
salary schedule should be, give raises to all
teachers, reinstate master's degree pay and protect public school budgets were the
Increasing
teacher pay by 0.5 percent on all
steps and lanes (
salary schedule) retroactively to the previous year and once again by the same amount next school year.
Not require districts to adhere to a state - dictated
salary schedule that defines
steps and lanes and sets the minimum pay at each level, although the state may find it appropriate to articulate
teachers» starting
salaries.
On top of that, the state had been utilizing a principal
salary schedule that had become out of
step with its
teacher salary schedule.
Kate Walsh with the National Council on
Teacher Quality calls the
steps and lanes
salary schedule a «flawed system» because it doesn't take performance into account.
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.
Your
salary schedule for the next 10 years — assuming there are no pay cuts or
step freezes which keep
teachers at their current
step for an extended period of time.
[4] We assume the new
teacher starts on the first
step of the
salary schedule having earned only a Bachelor's degree.
Compression could be done at the lower
steps at minimal cost given the current
teacher distributions within the
salary schedules that I've seen in la county districts (clearly in other states things are sometimes done differently).