Wake School Board Gives Initial OK to Cutting Raises
Wake County school board members gave tentative approval Tuesday to a plan to cut $4 million in proposed pay raises to make up for a $5 million budget shortfall for the 2007-2008 school year.
Posted — UpdatedThe board had hoped to award a 0.25 percent increase for teachers and a 1.23 percent increase for non-teaching staff in the county-funded supplemental pay above the state-funded salaries for their positions. Those boosts would be eliminated. Other cuts would come from pay raises for extra-duty employees such as coaches and band directors.
The board did decide that it should take $800,000 from its rainy-day fund to cover some expenses.
In Wake County, the current supplements for teachers range from $3,700 to about $13,000.
the school system's chief business officer said that even the small increases help the system compete for good employees.
"We're competing with the private sector. We're competing for bus mechanics and plumbers. We're competing in all of those areas," David Neter said.
Some raise for school workers is not out of the question. The North Carolina Legislature is proposing raises for state employees: a 5 percent raise for teachers and a 4 percent raise for other school staff.
• Credits
Copyright 2024 by Capitol Broadcasting Company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.