Placement examples

If you find your non-instructional hourly rate from Spring in the top table, you can use the bottom table to find where you would be placed using the non-instructional assignment. So a rate of $73.50 used to be Step 1, Group 3 on the old salary schedule, and that maps to Group 5, Step 9 ("5, 9") on the new Salary Schedule B-1. Your teaching assignment placement is the same as your old teaching placement, and you can find that by looking in mProfessor under the "View Teaching/ Banked hours reports" link. Here you should be able to see your Step and Group for Salary Type 88 (the old teaching salary schedule) for Spring 2020.

Example 1

• As agreed to in the contract's Article 14, if your two different placements are three or fewer steps apart, you will be placed at the higher paying placement. For example, let's say your teaching placement was Step 6, Group 4 and your non-teaching placement was Step 9, Group 4. Since the Step difference is just 3 steps, you will be put on the higher salary placement, Step 9, Group 4.

• On the new Salary Schedule B-1, the amount in the cell for Step 9, Group 4 is $2,589. This is how much you will be paid for 1.0 Lecture Hour Equivalent (LHE) regardless of the type of assignment, instructional, non-instructional, or both. So if your total assignment is 9.0 LHE, you'll be paid 9.0 * $2,589 = $23,301 for all your work that semester. (An assignment of 9.0 LHE could be made up in many different ways:

  • • one COUNS 20 section (3.0 LHE) and 12 weekly hours of counseling (6.0 LHE)

    • two COUNS 12 sections (2.0 LHE) and 14 weekly hours of counseling (7.0 LHE)

    • three COUNS 20 sections

    • 18 weekly hours of counseling

    • or many other variations

• Your pay stub will show a "RATE" that is your B-1 cell amount divided by 18 weeks, so in this example $2,589/18 = $143.83. This is not an hourly rate nor the pay for one hour of assignment: it is what you are paid per week, per LHE.

• Your pay stub also shows "UNITS" and these are not hours worked. They are the number of weeks in the pay cycle times the LHE of your assignment, as long as the assignment is over 18 weeks. The first two pays of a semester (Fall: September, October; Spring: March, April) are for 4 weeks of pay, and the last two pays (Fall: November, December; Spring: May, June) are for 5 weeks of pay. (Again, note that if your assignments are not spread over 18 weeks, the UNITS will be split out differently over the semester, but your total pay for the assignment is still just determined by the total LHE of the assignment.)

Example 2

• If your two placements are more than three steps apart, the district and FA must mutually agree on your final placement which should not be less than your average earnings in the past. Depending on your past assignment history, and the inconsistent pay rates on the old salary schedules, you might have two very different salary placements:

  • For example, for teaching you might be on Step 2, Group 3 ($1,789 per LHE), but for health services counseling you're placed at Step 11, Group 3 ($2635). There are 9 steps difference between the two placements. If you had roughly equal experience in those two assignments, we would look to see what step would correspond to you getting no less than the average of those two placements. Here, the average is $2,212, and the Step nearest to (but not less than) that amount in Group 3 is Step 8 ($2,426). So you would be placed there.

  • Your pay stub will show a "RATE" that is your B-1 cell amount divided by 18 weeks, so in this example $2,426/18 = $134.78. This is not an hourly rate nor the pay for one hour of assignment: it is what you are paid per week, per LHE.

• If you think you fell into that scenario, please reach out to us, we will get information from you and we will talk through what the final resolution was.