RE: Help wanted: 8 fastest growing fields NOT requiring a BA/BS degree
Thank you for posting the chart since it has been 14 years since my retirement and pay schedules have been considerably stretched out since then. Note TWO things: #1-that the only schedule that applies to academic classroom teachers is the 9 month (180 days) schedule. 10 and 12 month schedules are for Voc Ed teachers, coaches and administrators. #2-This pay schedule applies ONLY to Jeffco since each of the state's autonomous 133 districts independently hires its own teachers and sets its own pay schedule. One would have to access each district's individual web site to find what each provides before doing any comparisons.
According to the chart, the beginning salary for a BA/BS holding new nontenured Jeffco teacher is $36,165 and over 27 years rises to $48,676 MAXIMUM, a difference of about $12,500 over the almost 3 decades. When/If the teacher earns certification at the MA/MS level (class "A" certificate), his/her salary is adjusted for the next year to the level for their year of service at that point. A teacher entering their 9th year of service with that district, for example, would get a raise from $45,923 to $51,778, about a $5,200 difference. (What is the present cost of grad school hours at a state university? That times 33 hours for the MA/MS would indicate the minimum time it will take for the teacher to "break even" on costs vs pay raise basis)
If the teacher at some point returns to grad school and takes the 33 or so grad hours to get the next step for an EDS degree (class "AA" certificate), he/she would get another raise of about $2300 per year. If the teacher then goes back to grad school for about 40 more grad hours (I don't know the requirements of that level of program because no one I know ever went that far while remaining in the classroom) and gets a DEd degree, they would be entitled to another raise of about $3,000 per year depending on their point in years of service when the degree was completed and certificate issued by the state.
Over that span of years (however many years they were able to arrange to go to school while teaching, perhaps raising a family, etc.), the teacher would have paid for about 100 graduate hours in return for about $25,900 in pay enhancements due to degrees earned and held since entering the system 27 years earlier.
Statewide lagislatively passed pay raises (if they ever happen again) would raise everyone's pay across the state by about the same amount since they are based on each district's ADA/Teacher Unit allotment which is the same for every system**. A state passed pay boost would begin with the Oct. 31st pay check of the following year unless the local district has the reserve funds to pay it early (Sept 30th) on their own "dime". The state will not reimburse a district for doing so.
** Any teachers a district hires who is not covered by a state "TU", will have to be paid out of local revenue, including any pay raises passed in Montgomery. This is where local tax revenue can make a big difference because the state does not provide "TUs" for music, art, theater, library or other "non-core" course teachers or Guidance Councelors below high school level. Almost 100 Alabama school disticts hire ZERO teachers NOT covered by a state "TU". If your or your child's school had any or all of these courses below grade 9 (elementary or middle school), it was a sign you were in a relatively wealthy school district compared to so many others in the state.
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