Cary, N.C. — The Wake County Board of Education will consider a proposal Tuesday night to raise compensation for all employees.
Wake schools spokeswoman Lisa Luten told WRAL News on Monday that the compensation would be on top of what the school board and the state General Assembly approved last month.
Details aren’t yet available on most of what the compensation would be.
The proposal will include minimum employee pay to $15 per hour, according to memos sent to employees. About 3,600 school district employees are currently paid less than $15 per hour.
One of the memos, sent to instructional assistants and reviewed by WRAL News, says the district will propose a higher minimum wage for instructional assistants.
District officials have also previously communicated to employees that they wanted to request higher minimum pay for bus drivers, who currently earn $15 per hour starting out, but would need to work with state and local officials on obtaining the money to do so.
That was before a new state budget raised minimum pay to $13 per hour this year and $15 per hour next year. Wake County had already allocated its own money to pay for minimum wage increases to $13 per hour. Now that money will come from the state instead of county taxes.
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