Tuesday, June 19, 2012

School Administrators

Did you know that most school administrators are given 5 weeks of vacation time at the time of hire.

They are salary non-exempt.

Typically when you think of someone on salary, you think the employee is generally expected to devote the number of hours necessary to complete their respective tasks, regardless of whether that requires 35 hours per week or 55 hours per week.

Their compensation doesn't change based on actual hours expended. Exempt employees aren't paid extra for putting in more than 40 hours per week; they're paid for getting the job done.

On the other hand, nonexempt employees must be paid overtime if they work more than 40 hours per workweek, so it often behooves employers to keep nonexempt employees' hours down.

Of course districts typically encourage comp-time in lue of overtime pay.

If you are still not pissed off, then start paying attention. De Pere administrators have gotten 3% raises for the last two years while virtually everyone else agreed to a couple years of wage freezes.