Inequitable Pay Scale

[Anonymous]

Has anyone looked at the FY 2026 Salary Scale? https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/fy26-teacher-195-day.pdf
If my colleagues and I are interpreting it right, not all steps are receiving the promised 6% increase. When comparing figures from FY 2025, teachers at steps 2 and 3, for example, receive only a 1.92% increase from their current salaries. Has anyone else noticed this? Is there simply a mathematical mistake or intentional exclusion for some educators?

[Anonymous]

You're looking at the wrong column.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone looked at the FY 2026 Salary Scale? https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/fy26-teacher-195-day.pdf
If my colleagues and I are interpreting it right, not all steps are receiving the promised 6% increase. When comparing figures from FY 2025, teachers at steps 2 and 3, for example, receive only a 1.92% increase from their current salaries. Has anyone else noticed this? Is there simply a mathematical mistake or intentional exclusion for some educators?

Please please please don't go saying this. It makes teachers look so bad.

Rate of change = (New-old)/old

Everyone got a 6% increase. Multiply your current salary by 1.06 and that's what is in the new box. If you see something different, you are looking in the wrong boxes.

In your example, a step 2 bachelors teacher in 2025 makes $60,582. In 2026, that teacher will still be step 2, but make $64,216. That is a 5.998% raise.

2025: https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/fy25-teacher-195-day.pdf
2026: https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/fy26-teacher-195-day.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone looked at the FY 2026 Salary Scale? https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/fy26-teacher-195-day.pdf
If my colleagues and I are interpreting it right, not all steps are receiving the promised 6% increase. When comparing figures from FY 2025, teachers at steps 2 and 3, for example, receive only a 1.92% increase from their current salaries. Has anyone else noticed this? Is there simply a mathematical mistake or intentional exclusion for some educators?

You're not. Just like all the other people who have made this same complaint because they don't know how to read the payscale.

[Anonymous]

Apologies, this post can be closed, locked, or deleted now. Part of the confusion was that they had shifted the initial placement by years of experience. For example, in FY 25 step 1 is 0,1 years of experience. Whereas FY 26 step 1 is 0,1,2. My colleague got it wrong when she made her Excel sheet. Thank you for clarifying.

[Anonymous]

Few people in the private sector got 6% or even half that. Stop whining.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Few people in the private sector got 6% or even half that. Stop whining.

teachers never whine.

never complained about work from home either like the private sector wanted to keep doing.

teachers are tough and resilient.

can't say that about everyone else.