Cuts will hit teachers hard in June

05-28-2010

By Carol Veravanich/Orange County Register

Q. Can you do me a favor and put the cuts coming to our salary in dollars and cents for your readers so quick to criticize us? Do they know how much is being taken out of our pay this coming month? These furlough days are a huge hit to us and yet I keep hearing people say we need to do our share. How many of them would like to take this huge chunk out of their pay? A. Next month, we will have three furlough days, which equals a 1.5 percent pay cut for the whole school year taken out of June's paycheck. This means a teacher who makes $70,000 will have $1,050 cut out of their last paycheck and most of us will not be paid again till September. Some districts spread out these end-of-year furlough day pay cuts over two to four paychecks and others will come entirely out of June. Next year, the pay cuts will be spread over the 10 months we are paid, but the cuts will go way higher than 1.5 percent. (more...)

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