2023 EDUCATION EDITION
TEACHER SALARIES
CREATIVE INCENTIVES Besides pay raises, local school districts are nding creative ways to retain and recruit sta . Round Rock ISD • Asking voters to approve raising the tax rate to increase pay for teachers and sta • Partnership with a nonpro t for a ordable housing for teachers • Visiting teacher program for international educators • Partnership with local colleges for student- teacher pipeline
The consumer price index, or CPI, a measure of how the cost of goods has changed, has outpaced annual pay increases for area school districts with a growth rate of around 6% annually from 2020-22 compared with slower growth in base pay.
Round Rock ISD
P ugerville ISD
Hutto ISD
Base pay for 15-year educators
Base pay for 15-year educators
Base pay for 15-year educators
CPI year-over-year
Year-over- year pay
Year-over- year pay
Year-over- year pay
School year
2019-20
+2.3% $54,160
N/A
$55,000
N/A
$55,425
N/A
2020-21
+1.6% $57,235
+5.68% $56,900 +3.46% $56,575
+2.07%
2021-22
+7.8% $57,425
+0.33% $58,000 +1.93% $57,725
+2.03%
P ugerville ISD • Building workforce housing • Partnership for a ordable housing
2022-23
+6.9% $59,925
+4.35% $59,200 +2.07% $59,500 +3.07%
Hutto ISD • Additional stipends for special and bilingual educators • Job share teaching: two teachers share the responsibility of teaching a classroom in shifts • Teacher residents: college students in their senior year teach in the classroom through a partnership with Texas State • Pilot group teaching program: two sets of students will be instructed in large groups by all instructors for their respective grade • Teaching visas for international educators AFFORDABLE HOUSING Area school districts are working to address the problem of costs of living outpacing compensation for employees through a ordable housing.
2023-24
N/A
$61,375
+2.42% $60,451
+2.11% $61,300 +3.03%
SOURCE: BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, HUTTO ISD, PFLUGERVILLE ISD, ROUND ROCK ISD COMMUNITY IMPACT
education institutions through eight alternative pathways to becoming a teacher. In addition to the traditional college-to-class- room pathway, the district is o ering job-share teaching with two teachers sharing responsibility for a classroom. Other programs include a transition-to-teaching plan for people with a degree but no certi cation, alternative certi cation and teaching visas for international educators. These alternative certi cation options are HISD’s answer to the ongoing teacher shortage, Malone said. “It’s like a perfect storm,” she said. “We have fewer kids going into the profession; we have fewer parents saying they would recommend teaching to their child.” Similar to the program announced in June by RRISD, HISD’s residency program provides class- room experience for college students. During the previous school year, the district hosted 15 stu- dents, whom Malone described as “potentially fan- tastic teachers.” “We were able to hire seven of our residents,” Malone said. “We would have liked to have hired 100%, but, you know, kids are in college; some decide to move; some decide to go home.”
To address teacher concerns around classroom management and isolation, the district will also pilot a program grouping all students and teach- ers for fth grade at Kerley Elementary School and third grade at Hutto Elementary School. All teachers for the grade will share in teaching the students. Malone said the change in grouping will allow teachers to share the work of addressing needs of students instead of having to do so individually on a smaller scale in their own classrooms. “That’s really what that pilot is; it’s instead of one teacher, one classroom; it’s looking at our entire group di erently,” Malone said. District o cials said these and other initiatives to reduce teacher turnover and recruit new educa- tors will be priorities over the next several years. “We’re going to continue to face this in ation pressure as more and more people move to this area,” Curran said. “We have to make sure that we’re really creative with how we create opportu- nities for people to come and work here.”
By providing a ordable housing, employees are able to stay in the district.
Shorter commutes reduce gas costs for educators.
Living in a centralized area provides opportunities for carpooling.
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SOURCES: HUTTO ISD, PFLUGERVILLE ISD, ROUND ROCK ISD COMMUNITY IMPACT
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