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Introduction
Choose Your Scenario
Model District Cost Drivers



Elementary Schools
Class Size and Planning Time
Small Group Support
Individual Tutoring
Staffing Strategies



Secondary Schools
Class Size and Scheduling
Staffing Strategies



Professional Development
School-based PD
Individual Careers/Other PD



Compensation and Time
Teacher Compensation
Instructional Time



Reports and Results
Budget Summary
Per Pupil Costs

Formulating an effective teacher compensation strategy enables a district to attract high quality candidates, retain effective teachers, and provide incentives for teachers to improve their teaching practice.

The Teacher Compensation page will help you explore scenarios to structure a teacher compensation system to address district staffing needs. Your base case data is shown below in the gray fields. Please enter values into the yellow redesigned fields to explore the effects of changing the district compensation strategy as well as the use of instructional hours and credit hours as possible recruitment or retention tools.
salary components
base case redesigned
optional "across the board" salary increase (%)
average teacher salary (excluding benefits)
fringe rate (benefits as a percent of salary)
total paid days per year
average entry level teacher salary
percent of teachers at entry level salary
average top level teacher salary
percent of employees at top level teacher salary
average salary for permanent substitutes
average teacher salary (excluding benefits)
average teacher compensation (salary plus benefits)
total district-wide teacher compensation
school system budget

 
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This research was supported by the School Finance Redesign Project at the University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education through funding by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grant No. 29252.  The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and are not intended to represent the project, center, university, or foundation.

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