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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Give up. When you want to be a victim no amount of logic will ever make sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Give up. When you want to be a victim no amount of logic will ever make sense.

Your response makes no sense. The person you responded to just stated a fact. There was nothing ‘victim’ about her post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Give up. When you want to be a victim no amount of logic will ever make sense.

Your response makes no sense. The person you responded to just stated a fact. There was nothing ‘victim’ about her post.

I think PP meant give up trying to explain it

But man, any teacher who actually believes they are arbitrarily losing 3.7% of their pay ought to be REALLY MAD at their union!

[Anonymous]

WTU was not consulted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WTU was not consulted.

My guess is that payment processing is not covered in the contract. But, given that DCPS teachers apparently can't do math, it probably would have been prudent to consult WTA so they could assure their members that the same salary spread out over 27 rather than 26 pay periods is in fact the same pay for the same work ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WTU was not consulted.

My guess is that payment processing is not covered in the contract. But, given that DCPS teachers apparently can't do math, it probably would have been prudent to consult WTA so they could assure their members that the same salary spread out over 27 rather than 26 pay periods is in fact the same pay for the same work ...

Or they over estimated some of their employees and assumed it was easy to understand...

[Anonymous]

Wow. We are paid 90K for ten months of work. That alone is equivalent to a win. If you fear you are losing money, then cash that 27th check and put back 3.7% of it into your bank account every pay period. We get a step increase soon, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. We are paid 90K for ten months of work. That alone is equivalent to a win. If you fear you are losing money, then cash that 27th check and put back 3.7% of it into your bank account every pay period. We get a step increase soon, too.

Not all of us get the increase. Some of us are a longevity. Sitting at a cool $116k. Not bad. Not bad at all

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. We are paid 90K for ten months of work. That alone is equivalent to a win. If you fear you are losing money, then cash that 27th check and put back 3.7% of it into your bank account every pay period. We get a step increase soon, too.

I see you've drunk the Kool-Aid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. We are paid 90K for ten months of work. That alone is equivalent to a win. If you fear you are losing money, then cash that 27th check and put back 3.7% of it into your bank account every pay period. We get a step increase soon, too.

I see you've drunk the Kool-Aid

WTU is handing out the kool-aid. PP understands basic math.

[Anonymous]

To those that argue this is a pay cut, please answer the following questions:

1) has the amount of work required to earn each teacher's contracted salary changed?
2) has the total amount of the salary that will be paid for the contracted work changed?

If the answer to both of these is no, there has been no pay cut. If you disagree, please explain in terms of what is required and how much in total is being paid for that work under both the current (2018-19) and future (2019-2020) scenarios.

[Anonymous]

This thread is nuts. I'm worried that these folks are teaching our kids. It reminds me of that thing where people got up in arms because they received a lower tax refund, not realizing they'd been docked less tax per paycheck and therefore no refund needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To those that argue this is a pay cut, please answer the following questions:

1) has the amount of work required to earn each teacher's contracted salary changed?
2) has the total amount of the salary that will be paid for the contracted work changed?

If the answer to both of these is no, there has been no pay cut. If you disagree, please explain in terms of what is required and how much in total is being paid for that work under both the current (2018-19) and future (2019-2020) scenarios.

Again, there is no pay cut. However, in calendar year 2019, teachers will work and earn pay during one less week.

The pay they earn for 2019-2020 will be spread out over the extra unworked week, so every 2019-2020 paycheck will look slightly thinner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. We are paid 90K for ten months of work. That alone is equivalent to a win. If you fear you are losing money, then cash that 27th check and put back 3.7% of it into your bank account every pay period. We get a step increase soon, too.

I see you've drunk the Kool-Aid

I haven’t. I don’t buy into the scare tactics of Saunders. I’m a teacher who knows getting paid that much is a good wage, especially when I am off for 9 weeks. Again, just deposit the 3.7% each pay period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To those that argue this is a pay cut, please answer the following questions:

1) has the amount of work required to earn each teacher's contracted salary changed?
2) has the total amount of the salary that will be paid for the contracted work changed?

If the answer to both of these is no, there has been no pay cut. If you disagree, please explain in terms of what is required and how much in total is being paid for that work under both the current (2018-19) and future (2019-2020) scenarios.

Again, there is no pay cut. However, in calendar year 2019, teachers will work and earn pay during one less week.

The pay they earn for 2019-2020 will be spread out over the extra unworked week, so every 2019-2020 paycheck will look slightly thinner.

PP you are responding to. I know that. The point of the question was to break it down for those who think there is a paycut so they can see there is no scenario in which they are getting paid less for the same work. They are getting paid the same for the same amount of work but they payments are spread out differently.