EEUU: Dallas School District teachers ranked seventh in average salary earned in 2015-16

América del Norte/EEUU/mydallaspost.com

Resumen: Los datos de los salarios compilados por el Departamento de Educación del estado de Dallas parece apoyar la afirmación de la Asociación de Educación de Dallas (DEA) que sus miembros se les paga menos que otros distritos de EEUU. La matriz de salario del distrito, que venció con un contrato de la DEA en agosto de 2015, sigue siendo uno de los puntos de discusión de las negociaciones del contrato en curso, junto con la salud y las pensiones.

Dallas School District teachers earned an average salary of $63,110 in the 2015-16 school year, making them among the lower paid educators considering average years of experience.

The district’s salary matrix, which expired with the DEA’s contract in August 2015, remains one of the talking points of the ongoing contract negotiations, along with healthcare and pensions.

The DEA went on strike from Nov. 14 to Dec. 14 as a result of a stalemate between the teachers’ union and school board due to the lack of a new contract.

On May 31, the union announced a new strike date of Sept. 5, the first day of school for the 2017-18 school year.

Comparing earnings from the 2015-16 school year — the latest data available — Dallas School District educators are shown to have an average of 14.7 years of experience, the second highest among Luzerne County’s 11 school districts, according to statistics from the Department of Education.

The average Dallas School District teacher salary was ranked seventh in the county.

Wyoming Area School District educators’ experience topped DEA members with a mean of 15.4 years and an average wage of $63,816 for the 2015-16 school year.

Number crunching the salaries of other area districts revealed that Wilkes-Barre Area School District teachers were the top salary earners, receiving an average earning of $68,156, with a mean experience level of 13.8 years.

The lowest salary average of $60,556 was at Pittston Area School District in the 2015-16 school year. Pittston Area educators had a mean of 10 years of experience.

In the 2014-15 school year, the last year DEA members received a wage increase under the former matrix, Dallas School District had the fifth top-earning educators with an average salary of $62,810, ranking under neighboring Lake-Lehman School District, with an average wage of $63,179.

Dallas teachers had 13.9 years of experience, the second highest among local school districts that year. Lake-Lehman was fifth, with 13 years.

Under the expired pay matrix, Dallas School District teachers’ received raises for each year (columns) up to 16 years and for every six college credits above a bachelor’s degree (steps) up to 36 credits beyond a master’s degree.

The 2014-15 matrix started with a minimum annual earnings of $34,501 and would take an educator 15 years to reach a maximum pay of $80,866.

Fuente: http://www.mydallaspost.com/news/27593/dallas-school-district-teachers-ranked-seventh-in-average-salary-earned-in-2015-16