Proposed personnel salaries in my district for 2010-2011 total $28,766,764 which represents 81.6% of the total budget. Since personnel salaries are such a large percentage of the total budget, the only way to significantly reduce the budget would have to be in the area of personnel.
Even though a 5% salary increase for all personnel would definitely make everyone happy and perhaps make teacher salaries competitive, it would have a negative impact on a district’s budget. In order to give a 5% raise, most school districts in Texas would have to reduce their budgeted expenditures in anticipation of the decrease in state aid that they will receive in the future. Our district’s Business Manager said that giving a 5% raise would negatively impact the district causing more individual positions to be cut sooner than later. In addition, she said that in today’s tough financial times, it would be nice to give a 5% raise because of rising costs in personal budgets, but if we stop and really think about it, it might be better to just have a job these days rather than receive a raise!
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