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

[Anonymous]

Ms. Teachalot earns an annual salary paid in 26 pay periods.
Her employer decides not to pay her for one of these 26 pay periods and offers to reduce her next 26 paychecks by 3.7% in order to cobble together an additional paycheck to replace the one it decided not to pay.

Will her annual income be reduced? And if so, by how much?

Answer: yes, by 3.7%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ms. Teachalot earns an annual salary paid in 26 pay periods.
Her employer decides not to pay her for one of these 26 pay periods and offers to reduce her next 26 paychecks by 3.7% in order to cobble together an additional paycheck to replace the one it decided not to pay.

Will her annual income be reduced? And if so, by how much?

Answer: yes, by 3.7%.

No, employer pays 26 pay checks for 2018-2019. We start a week later. So you either get your 2019-2020 paychecks to start on time. OR they add an additional paycheck so you get continuous paychecks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ms. Teachalot earns an annual salary paid in 26 pay periods.
Her employer decides not to pay her for one of these 26 pay periods and offers to reduce her next 26 paychecks by 3.7% in order to cobble together an additional paycheck to replace the one it decided not to pay.

Will her annual income be reduced? And if so, by how much?

Answer: yes, by 3.7%.

No, employer pays 26 pay checks for 2018-2019. We start a week later. So you either get your 2019-2020 paychecks to start on time. OR they add an additional paycheck so you get continuous paychecks.

Also, if they are taking money from each paycheck to replace the missing one, aren’t you getting all the pay? Annual salary divided by 26 or 27 is still the same annual salary. We get that the paychecks are 3.7% less but that is not in fact a pay cut unless you aren’t getting all your money. Your post implies we are getting the additional check.

[Anonymous]

Teachers are nickeled and dimed, Bigly.

[Anonymous]

They're still getting the same annual salary. It doesn't matter how frequently it's dispersed as long as the same amount is dispersed within a year. Scary that most of you can't figure this out!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ms. Teachalot earns an annual salary paid in 26 pay periods.
Her employer decides not to pay her for one of these 26 pay periods and offers to reduce her next 26 paychecks by 3.7% in order to cobble together an additional paycheck to replace the one it decided not to pay.

Will her annual income be reduced? And if so, by how much?

Answer: yes, by 3.7%.

No, employer pays 26 pay checks for 2018-2019. We start a week later. So you either get your 2019-2020 paychecks to start on time. OR they add an additional paycheck so you get continuous paychecks.

DCPS teachers are salaried employees, not day laborers. We earn an annual salary. Annual means one year, 12 months, 26 pay periods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They're still getting the same annual salary. It doesn't matter how frequently it's dispersed as long as the same amount is dispersed within a year. Scary that most of you can't figure this out!

Scary that you can't figure out that a year has 12 months and 26 pay periods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They're still getting the same annual salary. It doesn't matter how frequently it's dispersed as long as the same amount is dispersed within a year. Scary that most of you can't figure this out!

Scary that you can't figure out that a year has 12 months and 26 pay periods.

you need to be fired, and I don't say that lightly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ms. Teachalot earns an annual salary paid in 26 pay periods.
Her employer decides not to pay her for one of these 26 pay periods and offers to reduce her next 26 paychecks by 3.7% in order to cobble together an additional paycheck to replace the one it decided not to pay.

Will her annual income be reduced? And if so, by how much?

Answer: yes, by 3.7%.

No, employer pays 26 pay checks for 2018-2019. We start a week later. So you either get your 2019-2020 paychecks to start on time. OR they add an additional paycheck so you get continuous paychecks.

DCPS teachers are salaried employees, not day laborers. We earn an annual salary. Annual means one year, 12 months, 26 pay periods.

Annual starting when? When was the first pay period for the 2018-2019 school year? And when did you get that check?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They're still getting the same annual salary. It doesn't matter how frequently it's dispersed as long as the same amount is dispersed within a year. Scary that most of you can't figure this out!

Scary that you can't figure out that a year has 12 months and 26 pay periods.

Yes, a year has 12 months, but there are numerous options for pay periods so there is no requirement that it has to be 26. I hope you're not a teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They're still getting the same annual salary. It doesn't matter how frequently it's dispersed as long as the same amount is dispersed within a year. Scary that most of you can't figure this out!

Scary that you can't figure out that a year has 12 months and 26 pay periods.

you need to be fired, and I don't say that lightly.

That seems rather harsh, are you the Spanish Inquisition?

[Anonymous]

Omg this “teacher” /troll is dumb as a post

[Anonymous]

I'm looking in PeopleSoft right now. Here's the rundown of paychecks:

1. Check Date: 8/31 Period: 8/5 - 8/18, 40 hours admin leave (summer), 40 hours Regular Earning (start of school year)
2. Check Date: 9/14 Period: 8/19 - 9/1, 80 hours regular earning
3. Check Date: 9/28 Period 9/2 - 9/15
4. Check Date: 10/12 Period 9/16 - 9/29
5. Check Date: 10/26 Period 9/30 - 10/13
6. Check Date: 11/9 Period 10/14 - 10/27
7. Check Date: 11/23 Period 10/28 - 11/10
8. Check Date 12/7 Period 11/11 - 11/24
9. Check Date 12/21 Period 11/25 - 12/08
10. Check Date 1/04 Period 12/09 - 12/22
11. Check Date 1/18 Period 12/23 - 1/05
12. Check Date 2/1 Period 1/06 - 1/19
13. Check Date 2/15 Period 1/20 - 2/02
14. Check Date 3/1 Period 2/3 - 2/16
15. Check Date 3/15 Period 2/17 - 3/02
16. Check Date 3/29 Period 3/03 - 3/16
17. Check Date 4/12 Period 3/17 - 3/30
18. Check Date 4/26 Period 3/31 - 4/13
19. Check Date 5/10 Period 4/14 - 4/27
20. Check Date 5/24 Period 4/28 - 5/11
21. Check Date 6/7 Period 5/12 - 5/25
22. Check Date 6/21 Period 5/26 - 6/08

Summer checks (still to come, info from email from Timeandlabor on ). Trippy side note: you are not actually getting paid for these weeks. DCPS has already deducted money from the previous 22 checks (interest free!) so you can continue to receive roughly the same amount during the summer. You will see this noted on every pay stub as "Summer Pay Credit". Mine is over $10,000 so far.
23. Check Date 7/5, Period 6/10 - 6/23
24. Check Date 7/19, Period 6/23 - 7/6
25. Check Date 8/2, Period 7/7 - 7/20
26. Check Date 8/16, Period 7/21 - 8/3

As of August 16, you will have been paid for everything for the 2018-2019 school year. If you are like me, you would also like a paycheck two weeks after check #26, which normally would be check #1 for the 2019-2010 school year. It would look like this:

1. Check Date 8/30, Period 8/4 - 8/17.

Except if you are like me and a 10-month DCPS employee, you didn't actually work that time. So what are our choices?
1. Don't pay you for time time not worked. Hope you have money saved! Your first check of the 2019-2020 school year would be 9/13, for the period 8/19 -8/30.
2. Pay you EARLY for time you haven't actually worked, but will in the 2019-2020 school year.

I like #2 best. Not because I don't have money saved, but because I really like consistency (I know, DCPS really isn't the place for me, but that's a whole other thread!). Also, I can do division. Heck, it's standard algorithm, not even "Common Core" math! (Spoiler alert, that's just regular math...again, whole other thread!).

Ok, so we decided paying us in advance for work we promise to do is the best option. Here's what our checks now look like.

1. 8/30, Period 8/4 - 8/17 (remember, we haven't worked this yet)
2. 9/13, Period 8/18-8/30 (Yay for a new school year!)
3. 9/27, No longer going to type out pay periods because hopefully you see that it's always two weeks behind...
4. 10/11
5. 10/25
6. 11/8
7. 11/22
8. 12/6
9. 12/20
10. 1/3
11. 1/17
12. 1/31
13. 2/14
14. 2/28
15. 3/13
16. 3/27
17. 4/10
18. 4/24
19. 5/8
20. 5/22
21. 6/5
22. 6/19
23. 7/3
24. 7/10
25. 7/17
26. 7/31
27. 8/14

To finish, let's look at an example. Imagine you make a cool $100,000 a year. And you're one of the sad teachers in a "hold" year so you made $100,000 for 2018-2019 and you'll make $100,000 for 2019-2020.

$100,000 divided by 26 = $3,846.15
$100,000 divided by 27 = $3,703.70

$3,703 divided by $3,846 = 0.96281851
0.96281851 times 100 = 96.2818513
100 - 96.2818513 = 3.71814873 which means each check is 3.7% less with 27 pay checks than with 26.

But, spoiler alert, you still get $100,000 at the end of the year.

Except for taxes.
And pension.
And healthcare.
BUT, at least you don't have to pay union fees now!

[Anonymous]

Geez, guys, there is an extra week of summer vacation in 2019 that teachers don’t get paid for. Yes, they’ll get full salary for the upcoming school year, but that school year (and the next and the next...presumably) happens one week later.

Teachers are not on an annual salary like in an office; they get paid for the school year. If the school year is shifted a week later, then there is a one-time one-week extra of summer that they are not earning money.

Teachers are not getting a permanent pay cut, but in 2019, they work one less week.

[Anonymous]

I like to think that if they switched to monthly paychecks this idiot OP would believe he'd gotten a 116% raise.