Compensation

Information about the Affordable Care Act also known as Obama Care or Healthcare Reform

Downloadable spreadsheets to help you calculate large employer status, estimate potential penalties and track hourly employees according to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

A three-year comparison of the ODE average teacher salary.

Downloadable maps of average teacher salaries.

The usual strategy of “negotiated tradeoffs” isn’t the best way to plan health care benefits these days, especially when everyone should agree to share the burden of rising costs.

An explanation of the California Certificated Staff Performance Incentive Act.

As fiscal reality worsens with each economic forecast, boards and unions face the challenge of “living within our means.”

Portland and U.S. CPI averages since 1979.

A three-year comparison of the increases to the BA Step 0 Salary.

A three-year comparison of insurance contributions for teachers.

What do striking grocery workers, the longest school district strike in Washington state history, Chicago teachers taking a strike vote and an eagerly awaited report from Portland Public Schools all have in common? The rising cost of health insurance.

Chart showing types of insurance cap methods used in 2007-2008.

Representatives from nearly 40 districts of all sizes and education stakeholders - including a group from OSBA - attended Chalkboard Project's Info Day August 4 in Eugene to take a fresh look at teacher pay and evaluation.

An increasing number of Oregon school districts are adopting performance-pay options in their collective bargaining agreements.

Chart showing districts and ESDs with licensed insurance caps since 1998-99.

A downloadable publication containing a comparison of teacher salaries and benefits for the current year.

Teacher Performance Pay, as part of a total compensation program, is a concept that bears further examination.

According to Alan Odden (University of Wisconsin, CPRE), experience with implementing performance pay systems yields a number of recommendations for those considering this challenge:

There are some very good reasons for developing an effective compensation program.

Finally, the study identified nine points districts should follow to ensure success in a school-based performance program:

The mid-1970s to the mid-1980s was the merit pay decade. It was during these years that a variety of plans developed in school districts across the nation.

In a February 2000 policy brief, the Consortium for Policy Research and Education (CPRE) examined the motivational effects of School Based Performance Awards (SBPA) on teachers and principals in three sites across the country; the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District in North Carolina, the Kentucky Accountability Program, and the Maryland School Performance Program. According to this study, school-based performance awards are a popular accountability strategy intended to align individual- or school-level monetary incentives with the school’s ability to meet student achievement standards.

Since the 1920’s, the single salary schedule format has been used to pay all teachers the same in terms of educational attainment and experience in every grade, subject, and school. Most districts increase pay for experience (i.e., seniority) more than they do for education.

Links to information about performance pay.

An overview of the role of the board and the appropriate process and procedures that are followed by the district administrator for reductions in force.

“Show me the money,” the saying from the movie “Jerry Maguire,” could be a workers’ chant during collective bargaining. Unions want boards to pay higher wages and all insurance costs, which can detour the collective bargaining process from clarity into confusion.

A three-year comparison of salary schedules.

Sample performance pay plan

Table listing Oregon's substitute teacher pay since 2000-01.

Helpful information on creating labor-management insurance committees.

Questions and answers about unemployment insurance costs

An analysis of what motivates teachers when employees are in short supply.