Furlough days result in lower teacher pay
Teachers returning to Placentia-Yorba Linda’s public school classrooms this year will give up a bit more than $3.5 million in salary and benefits for a near four percent drop in compensation under a new contract that includes five furlough days.
And the teachers face further reductions with the possible addition of up to four more furlough days depending on the outcome of Prop. 30, the temporary tax increase measure on the Nov. 6 ballot, according to a pact approved by the unified school district’s trustees.
Here are the specifics for the detail-minded: five furlough days will save $2,197,137 (a 2.7 percent cut), an eight-month delay in anniversary or “step” increases will save $976,503 (a 1.2 percent cut) and $394,485 more will be saved on statutory benefits.
Further reductions are probable should Prop. 30 lose, with the number of additional furlough days based on the average daily attendance money received from the state.
For example, one furlough day will be added if the dollars received for average daily attendance fall below $5,180, sliding up to four days if the dollars fall below $5,030, with wages refigured if the district receives less than the latter figure.
A beginning teacher loses about $250 and a veteran up to $500 in pay per furlough day.
Salaries for classified staff, including secretaries, aides, custodians, food service workers and bus drivers, haven’t been approved yet, but certificated and classified administrators and managers will see the same percentage reduction as teachers, saving $578,000. And trustees will get a similar cut in their $750 monthly stipends, saving $1,215.
The district now expects to spend more than $193 million for the 2012-2013 fiscal year, with income a bit above $185 million and reserve funds dipping to $6.6 million or 3.23 percent, which meets the state-required minimum.
Last year’s teacher salary schedule, which included four furlough days for a total 181-day work year, ranged from $44,693 for a beginning teacher with a bachelor’s degree plus 30 units to $92,516 for a veteran with 30 or more years and a master’s degree or a bachelor’s plus 75 units.
Salary schedules are arranged in columns and steps, with columns representing education through degrees and college-level units and steps representing years of service. Currently, nearly all beginning teachers are fully credentialed which takes 30 units past a bachelor’s, so they usually start on the first step of the third column.
Moving to a new column results in salary increases in the $2,500 to $5,500 range, while years of service--the “steps”--give increases in the $2,500 range. Teachers receive step increases in each of the first 13 years and thereafter at four- or five-year intervals until reaching the top step at 30 years in the fifth column.
This year’s contract delays any step increase until the eighth month, so they’ll only earn step increases for two months. Teachers are paid 10 times each year, beginning on Sept. 28 and ending on June 28 for the 2012-13 school year, although they have the option of spreading the same pay over a 12-month period.
And the teachers face further reductions with the possible addition of up to four more furlough days depending on the outcome of Prop. 30, the temporary tax increase measure on the Nov. 6 ballot, according to a pact approved by the unified school district’s trustees.
Here are the specifics for the detail-minded: five furlough days will save $2,197,137 (a 2.7 percent cut), an eight-month delay in anniversary or “step” increases will save $976,503 (a 1.2 percent cut) and $394,485 more will be saved on statutory benefits.
Further reductions are probable should Prop. 30 lose, with the number of additional furlough days based on the average daily attendance money received from the state.
For example, one furlough day will be added if the dollars received for average daily attendance fall below $5,180, sliding up to four days if the dollars fall below $5,030, with wages refigured if the district receives less than the latter figure.
A beginning teacher loses about $250 and a veteran up to $500 in pay per furlough day.
Salaries for classified staff, including secretaries, aides, custodians, food service workers and bus drivers, haven’t been approved yet, but certificated and classified administrators and managers will see the same percentage reduction as teachers, saving $578,000. And trustees will get a similar cut in their $750 monthly stipends, saving $1,215.
The district now expects to spend more than $193 million for the 2012-2013 fiscal year, with income a bit above $185 million and reserve funds dipping to $6.6 million or 3.23 percent, which meets the state-required minimum.
Last year’s teacher salary schedule, which included four furlough days for a total 181-day work year, ranged from $44,693 for a beginning teacher with a bachelor’s degree plus 30 units to $92,516 for a veteran with 30 or more years and a master’s degree or a bachelor’s plus 75 units.
Salary schedules are arranged in columns and steps, with columns representing education through degrees and college-level units and steps representing years of service. Currently, nearly all beginning teachers are fully credentialed which takes 30 units past a bachelor’s, so they usually start on the first step of the third column.
Moving to a new column results in salary increases in the $2,500 to $5,500 range, while years of service--the “steps”--give increases in the $2,500 range. Teachers receive step increases in each of the first 13 years and thereafter at four- or five-year intervals until reaching the top step at 30 years in the fifth column.
This year’s contract delays any step increase until the eighth month, so they’ll only earn step increases for two months. Teachers are paid 10 times each year, beginning on Sept. 28 and ending on June 28 for the 2012-13 school year, although they have the option of spreading the same pay over a 12-month period.
posted by Jim Drummond at 12:00 PM
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