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By Emily Walkenhorst, WRAL education reporter
Cary, N.C. — The Wake County Public School System employees will provide wage and salary increases for “all employees,” including substitute teachers, to the tune of $38.9 million this year.
Wage increases could be 40% or more for the lowest-paid workers, mostly instructional assistants. It would be less for most employees.
The Wake County Board of Education will approved the pay increases without opposition at its regular board meeting Tuesday.
The district is using leftover funding to pay for the raises.
Continuing to fund the new pay approved Tuesday will require either an additional appropriation of funds from the county next year or for the district to take money form an existing program or expenditure next year.
Board members heard Tuesday afternoon that the district has a fund balance of 2.7%, or about seven days of operations. Ideal fund balances are higher than that, closer to 8%.
The proposal is the biggest move so far toward a years-long effort by the school board — put on pause at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, to increase pay for the district’s lowest-wage workers.
“When bonuses and base pay combined in January most employees will receive likely the largest paycheck of their WCPSS career,” Superintendent Cathy Moore told the school board.
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