Wednesday, August 6, 2008

$5 Footlongs? How about a $5.00/hour raise??!!

How many of you received a $5.00/hr raise? How many received $5.00/hr raise TOTAL over the past 10 years??? State employees got a whopping 2.5% for FY2007 and a 1% raise for FY2008.

On Monday, the school board's Human Resources committee voted to move a contract package for Administrative Support to the full school board for approval. For all positions, a 3.6% increase was recommended, but one job title, the Business Services Manager, makes out like an NFL 1st round draft pick. Don't get us wrong---Rhonda Page is a great lady---but $5.00 per hour increase for ANYONE is insanity. That's over a 15% raise from a salary of $32.00/hr to $37.00/hr ($77,000/yr).

That $5.00/hr RAISE is 77% of the MINIMUM wage!!! Ms. Page will receive as an hourly RAISE almost as much as some folks get per hour TOTAL!

That's a $10,400 increase per year!

That's 2600 gallons of gas (at $4.00/gal) per year!

That's 2080 foot long subs at Subway.

That's 2080 Pizza Hut Pizza Mias (if bought in threes).

This goes to the full school board for approval this coming Monday, August 11. Wanna bet it's a slam dunk for unanimous approval? Here's the new **proposed ** Administrative Support salary matrix:


2008-09 SPASD Admin Support Salary Grid