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Attachment 1 6 Teacher Pay Salary Schedule 1. The 10 -month salary is set based on the salary schedule adopted each year. 2. The 1998 -99 salary schedule provides for differential of about: ❑ 1.7 percent between employees based on years of experience; that is, an employee with eight years of experience is at a salary about 1.7 percent higher than an employee with seven years of experience. An exception is that at the three, four and five year steps, the differentials between steps are 6.5, 5.0 and 3.8 percent respectively. ❑ 6.25 percent for employees with a Master's license as compared to employees with a Bachelor's license. ❑ 12 percent for employees who have met the National Board of Professional Teacher Standards as compared to those who have not. For 1998 -99, the increase approved by the NC General Assembly averaged 6.5 percent, but it is not uniformly distributed in the salary schedule. For example, the five -year step increased 7'9 percent and the two -year step increased 4.2 percent. Generally the greatest changes occurred in the five to 10 year service group. The changes are part of a long- term plan to improve starting salaries and retention set out in the Excellent Schools Act. If no salary increase were approved by the General Assembly, the Department of Public Instruction would change the salary schedule so that the each step was reduced to the value of the next lower step. For example, the eight -year step would become the same as the seven -year step and no increase would be granted. In this way there is no increase associated with gaining a year of experience unless funding is approved for that fiscal year. 4. Each teacher receives the increase awarded for his or her step (education and experience) in the salary schedule without regard to work performance. For example, a teacher on the 13 -year step in 1997 -98 moves to the 14 -year step for the 1998 -99 school year. For a master degree teacher in this example, this equates to an 8.4 percent salary increase. (About 6.5 percent is the change in the step value and the remainder is the increase to the higher step.) Lump Sum Bonuses (ABC Incentive) 5. In addition, under the "ABCs of Public Education" program, teachers may receive lump sum bonuses. In the 1997 -98 school year, the State provided funding at the level of $750 for teachers in schools that met all of their growth expectations and $1500 for teachers in schools that attained the exemplary growth standard. The distribution of the bonus is at the discretion of the school as part of the school improvement plan.