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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would strongly recommend teachers and parents make a very big fuss about how starting salaries have not been remotely keeping up with inflation. And yes I get inflation lately has been crazy and a lot of salaries have not kept up. So let's compare FY12 to FY20 so we are looking at a relatively low inflation period:

FY13 starting salary for MA/MEQ: $51,128
FY20 starting salary for MA/MEQ: $55,537

That is a little less than a 9% increase over 7 years while the CPI shows a 12% increase over this period. Even before the recent spike in inflation teachers were making less in real dollars than they were before. Now let's look at current salaries:

FY23 starting salary for MA/MEQ: $59,424

% change over 10 years: 16%
CPI change: 30%

As teachers leave the remaining teachers have a harder job. More work for significantly less pay in real dollars. This is a horrifically viscious cycle that is harming our children.[/quote]

This is even more so for those of us who work in the private sector. Meanwhile, Elrich is hiking property taxes by 10% so teachers get a big pay boost. The only way I can keep up is to find a new job to renegotiate my pay.[/quote]

As I acknowledged in my above post, "And yes I get inflation lately has been crazy and a lot of salaries have not kept up."

But pre pandemic, overall wages were keeping up with inflation. MCPS was not, so they were already behind and now it is much worse. Maybe you don't have kids so don't care if there are teachers to teach. Many of us have a vested interest in this. When you were growing up, the adults paid taxes so you could have teachers to educate you. Now you want to pull up the ladder behind you. Taxes are no fun to pay but a 10% increase in your taxes is not a 10% increase in your monthly housing costs, since taxes are only a part of your costs, and you know it.[/quote]

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