Week Four Assignment, Part 4 – Understanding Personnel Salaries in District Budgets
When I was hired in our school district, I was told “We take care of our employees.” Throughout the years, the Superintendent at hand can be heard saying, “We are all about our people.” I have always felt that it meant I needed to be a servant leader and take care of the teachers on my campus. After analyzing our district data, the sayings have a whole new meaning. Our district spends 87.9% of its budget on salaries. This enables students to have the teacher-to-student ratio needed for students to be successful. It also helps to have a competitive salary for educators so that we can hire and keep quality educators.
In our district a 5% salary increase would mean miraculously finding $14 million dollars. It would mean receiving more state money or a grant; however I’m not sure how we would sustain the increase over time if it were a grant. There would be a need to increase property taxes. Services would also need to be cut, such as lowering the amount of insurance coverage that the district paid, etc. Currently transportation picks up students outside a 1 mile radius; this would have to increase to 2 miles to have savings in that area. On the positive side, we would be extremely salary competitive with neighboring districts and more money would be going into the local economy.
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