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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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!

Oh my. I realllly hope you're not a math teacher. Yes, each check is less when you're getting 27 instead of 26 because YOU ARE GETTING AN EXTRA PAYCHECK.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

No, you are wrong. Teachers are on an annual salary. They get paid for the school year but it's paid out over the entire year. The amount of money they are taking home for the whole year remains the same. If you are correct that they have an additional week of summer this year (I believe you are incorrect), that would mean they are getting paid the same amount for less work, or, as it's known in the real world, a raise.

The reality is they're working the same amount and getting the same amount of money, distributed slightly differently because of a quirk that happens every so often because there are not precisely 52 weeks in 365 days.

If you make $100 it's not less money if it's paid out in fives instead of twenties.

[Anonymous]

That was the whole point. Some teachers don’t understand the extra paycheck thing so I had to write it all out. Same amount of salary, different pay checks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

According to our contract, we are paid an annual salary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That was the whole point. Some teachers don’t understand the extra paycheck thing so I had to write it all out. Same amount of salary, different pay checks.

But paid over more than a year. 27 pay periods is more than a year. That wouldn't be an annual salary. That would be an annual plus 2 weeks salary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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!

Oh my. I realllly hope you're not a math teacher. Yes, each check is less when you're getting 27 instead of 26 because YOU ARE GETTING AN EXTRA PAYCHECK.

it's not an extra paycheck. It's more like a make-up paycheck for a pay period that DCPS is arbitrarily choosing not to pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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!

Oh my. I realllly hope you're not a math teacher. Yes, each check is less when you're getting 27 instead of 26 because YOU ARE GETTING AN EXTRA PAYCHECK.

it's not an extra paycheck. It's more like a make-up paycheck for a pay period that DCPS is arbitrarily choosing not to pay.

what? it's an extra paycheck paid early in advance of the work being performed, with a pro-rata amount taken out of each subsequent paycheck. how is DCPS "arbitrarily chosing not to pay"? this is an income-smoothing measure taken because the school year starts later this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That was the whole point. Some teachers don’t understand the extra paycheck thing so I had to write it all out. Same amount of salary, different pay checks.

But paid over more than a year. 27 pay periods is more than a year. That wouldn't be an annual salary. That would be an annual plus 2 weeks salary.

would you have rather gone a pay period without a paycheck?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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!

You seem to have a lot of time on your hands

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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!

Oh my. I realllly hope you're not a math teacher. Yes, each check is less when you're getting 27 instead of 26 because YOU ARE GETTING AN EXTRA PAYCHECK.

it's not an extra paycheck. It's more like a make-up paycheck for a pay period that DCPS is arbitrarily choosing not to pay.

what? it's an extra paycheck paid early in advance of the work being performed, with a pro-rata amount taken out of each subsequent paycheck. how is DCPS "arbitrarily chosing not to pay"? this is an income-smoothing measure taken because the school year starts later this year.

Ahhh "income smoothing" a wonderful euphemism for "we're cutting an entire pay period and then docking you 3.7% on your next 26 paychecks to make this seem like we're doing you a favor"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That was the whole point. Some teachers don’t understand the extra paycheck thing so I had to write it all out. Same amount of salary, different pay checks.

But paid over more than a year. 27 pay periods is more than a year. That wouldn't be an annual salary. That would be an annual plus 2 weeks salary.

would you have rather gone a pay period without a paycheck?

I would rather that my employer not arbitrarily cut an entire pay period due to a scheduling change

[Anonymous]

Knowing this was going to happen, an extra week of summer, why didn't DCPS just divide the summer pay by one more week?

[Anonymous]

If this is such an issue, teachers should try to get paid semi-monthly instead of bi-weekly. Then there will always be 24 pay periods no matter when school ends or starts. Problem solved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If this is such an issue, teachers should try to get paid semi-monthly instead of bi-weekly. Then there will always be 24 pay periods no matter when school ends or starts. Problem solved.

Then all the teachers would be crying about being shorted two paychecks! They don't seem to understand the concept of an annual salary and varying pay schedules.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Knowing this was going to happen, an extra week of summer, why didn't DCPS just divide the summer pay by one more week?

poor planning