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Board approves 2% raise for nonbargaining staff, approves transportation compression adjustments
Summary
The board approved a 2% salary increase for nonbargaining employees and a targeted compression adjustment for transportation staff; raises to appear in October payroll with retro to July 1 for transportation.
The Volusia County School Board unanimously approved a 2% salary increase for nonbargaining employees and separately approved a set of adjustments intended to reduce wage compression in the district's transportation workforce.
Superintendent Carmen Balgobin recommended the increase for the nonbargaining group, and Stephanie Workman, executive director of human resources, presented the cost estimates. Workman explained how the calculation includes employer-paid retirement, FICA and life insurance: "For roughly 6,500 employees, you're looking at almost $400,000,000," and that the districtwide cost is roughly $4 million per each 1% of salary when benefits are included.
The nonbargaining raise was presented as a uniform 2% increase for…
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