3.7% pay cut for DCPS teachers for SY 19-20

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Anonymous wrote:Do teachers earn an annual salary or not?

Yes, but it’s paid over the school year, not the calendar year. So it depends on start dates of the school year.

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DCPS teachers are usually paid every other week, therefore receiving 26 checks per calendar year. I am curious about how/when payroll will issue the 27th check since it doesn’t fit the pattern of bi-weekly pay. The correspondence from the chancellor does not state when teachers will receive the “extra” paycheck.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s like the factory shut down for a week — nobody works, nobody gets paid* — but then everything goes back to normal. The workers don’t get a ‘pay cut,’ but they did miss out on a week of work and the associated pay.

Um, no, it is not. They getting the same pay for the same hours, but it's spread out over 27 pay periods instead of 26. Why is this hard to understand??

Um, yes it is.

The letter that OP wuoted begins:
“School Year 2019-2020 begins one pay period later than the school year started for School Year 2018-2019.”

That is why there is a ‘gap’ pay period.

They're still getting paid the same amount of money for the same amount of work. Not sure why this is so hard to understand?

Yes.

And that work is shifted later in calendar year by one week. (This summer is a week longer than typical.) So by December 31 of this year, they will have worked and earned pay for one less week.

They will get paid in full for the upcoming school year, but they will finish that work and finish getting that pay later in 2020 than if the school schedule had not shifted.

They are *not* getting a pay cut; they are working and earning during one fewer weeks in 2019, due to shifting the school schedule a week later.

I don’t know why that is so hard to understand!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do teachers earn an annual salary or not?

Each system spreads pay out differently. I am in Mcps and do not get paid in the summer. We can elect to have a portion of each paycheck deducted and put in a separate (county) account. If you do this then you will be cut checks from that account over the summer. If you do not choose this option, then you do not get a paycheck from early July-late September.
It sounds like dcps has a different plan.

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If teachers are paid an annual salary, there should be no gap weeks. A salary is a salary. A year is a year.

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Anonymous wrote:If teachers are paid an annual salary, there should be no gap weeks. A salary is a salary. A year is a year.

But when does the year begin? It begins at the start of the school year. So go 26 pay periods from the start of the 2018-2019 school year and stop. Then start school a week later for 2019-2020, and account for two-week pay periods. You get a missing week. If they just go year to year they end up over paying by a week.

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We also aren’t “paid” over the summer. Each paycheck we have an amount deducted for “summer pay.” That money is put aside and reserved so we can continue to receive the same paycheck amount over the summer. It was already earned and if you quit DCPS you would still get all that money. So we are in effect getting a large “pay cut” every paycheck to receive the money later. Obviously not a real pay cut but the same idea that is happening with the 3.7%.

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You can call it anything you want, but the result is teachers will get 3.7 % less on each paycheck, which at the end of 12 months will be a salary that is 3.7% less than what was agreed to on the current salary scale.

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Anonymous wrote:Do teachers earn an annual salary or not?

Each system spreads pay out differently. I am in Mcps and do not get paid in the summer. We can elect to have a portion of each paycheck deducted and put in a separate (county) account. If you do this then you will be cut checks from that account over the summer. If you do not choose this option, then you do not get a paycheck from early July-late September.
It sounds like dcps has a different plan.

Same for APS. You can go on a 20 or 24 pay plan. 15th and last work day of the month. I think it eliminates this type of confusion

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Anonymous wrote:You can call it anything you want, but the result is teachers will get 3.7 % less on each paycheck, which at the end of 12 months will be a salary that is 3.7% less than what was agreed to on the current salary scale.

Not if they get one additional pay check containing the "lost" money.

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Anonymous wrote:You can call it anything you want, but the result is teachers will get 3.7 % less on each paycheck, which at the end of 12 months will be a salary that is 3.7% less than what was agreed to on the current salary scale.

No, that's not true. THEY GET AN EXTRA PAYCHECK. Do you actually think the teacher's union would agree to an arbitrary salary cut of 3.7%? The only thing that has changed is how & when the payments are made, not the rate of compensation or the amount of work. The 27th paycheck is the equivalent of the amount taken out of the prior paychecks. You get paid 3.7 % less in each paycheck, and then that entire amount is in the new 27th paycheck. Seriously sad for the state of DCPS if you are a teacher.

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Anonymous wrote:You can call it anything you want, but the result is teachers will get 3.7 % less on each paycheck, which at the end of 12 months will be a salary that is 3.7% less than what was agreed to on the current salary scale.

No, that's not true. THEY GET AN EXTRA PAYCHECK. Do you actually think the teacher's union would agree to an arbitrary salary cut of 3.7%? The only thing that has changed is how & when the payments are made, not the rate of compensation or the amount of work. The 27th paycheck is the equivalent of the amount taken out of the prior paychecks. You get paid 3.7 % less in each paycheck, and then that entire amount is in the new 27th paycheck. Seriously sad for the state of DCPS if you are a teacher.

I’m one of the PP embarrassed that my colleagues can’t figure this out. Maybe we should just let them miss a paycheck and see how they feel then. It is utterly ridiculous that we are on page three and people still don’t get it. I’m about to start typing out all their pay periods. This is nothing but union fear mongering. They have no better platform or ability so they are clinging to this hoping to get people up in arms. Don’t feed the WTU trolls.

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Type away

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But that extra pay period is not paid during the calendar year

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Anonymous wrote:But that extra pay period is not paid during the calendar year

It's coming before the school year starts so there isn't a gap in paychecks, because summer is a week longer this year. But teachers still get paid the same amount in 2019-2020 because they get 27 instead of 26 paychecks.