Post by pavel on Apr 22, 2016 9:09:40 GMT -6
MONTGOMERY — Most Alabama teachers will get a 4 percent raise in 2017, but retirees won’t see a bonus even if the state has extra money.
That’s the word of the Alabama Legislature, which gave its final approval to a $6.3 billion education budget Thursday.
Working teachers and other school employees would get a 4 percent pay raise if they now make less than $75,000 per year, and employees with higher pay would see their pay go up by 2 percent.
But the retiree bonus — a small pay bump that was set aside for retirees only if revenues exceeds projections — was cut from the budget as lawmakers negotiated a compromise between earlier versions of the budget that had already passed the House and the Senate.
Read more: www.annistonstar.com/news/alabama-education-budget-passes-without-retiree-bonus/article_0f5f591a-07f7-11e6-a25e-8fd48a5b14b0.html
That’s the word of the Alabama Legislature, which gave its final approval to a $6.3 billion education budget Thursday.
Working teachers and other school employees would get a 4 percent pay raise if they now make less than $75,000 per year, and employees with higher pay would see their pay go up by 2 percent.
But the retiree bonus — a small pay bump that was set aside for retirees only if revenues exceeds projections — was cut from the budget as lawmakers negotiated a compromise between earlier versions of the budget that had already passed the House and the Senate.
Read more: www.annistonstar.com/news/alabama-education-budget-passes-without-retiree-bonus/article_0f5f591a-07f7-11e6-a25e-8fd48a5b14b0.html