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[quote=Anonymous][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]

You are kidding yourself if you think pre-pandemic wages were keeping up.  Wage stagnation over the last 50 years is well studied and reported on.  Some specific sectors like Tech have had abundant wages, but that was offset but the really high cost of living in most areas where the companies are located.  Other industries not so much.  Most private sectors workers have been lucky if they got a 2-3% increase.  And those who see the most increase in their salary over time have changed companies every few years or jobs.  Professional development to keep up with the frequent changes is the market and technology is paid out of pocket but required if you want to stayed employed and moved up. Contractors could actually make more than the staff. Human Resources is a joke.  And now most are requiring previously remote employees to come into office 3-4 days per week.  We may not have the bad behaviors of kids, but trust we end our days and weeks exhausted.  Oh, and we have the joy of having performance review season.[/quote]

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