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Montgomery ISD approves 2026–27 pay increase for staff and $1,000 one‑time stipend
Summary
The Montgomery ISD board approved a compensation package for 2026–27 that includes a $2,100 raise for employees on the teacher pay scale, a 3% raise for other staff and a one‑time $1,000 impact recognition stipend to be paid in May, funded from current‑year capacity.
The Montgomery ISD Board of Trustees on April 21 approved a districtwide compensation plan for the 2026–27 school year that the district said is intended to help recruit and retain staff.
Superintendent Dr. Ruffin presented the package, which the district described as a $2,100 flat increase for all employees on the teacher pay scale and a 3% increase for other staff paid on midpoint-based pay grades. "The compensation plan that we are recommending for next year provides a $2,100 raise for all staff that's on the teacher pay scale," Dr. Ruffin said, and staff framed the flat figure as roughly equivalent to the 3% midpoint raise for non‑teacher groups.
In the same motion, trustees approved a one-time $1,000 impact recognition stipend for every staff member, including bus drivers, custodians, counselors, teachers and district police officers. Dr. Ruffin said the stipend would be paid from current-year budget capacity rather than simply rolling excess into fund balance. "This one I'm excited to recommend to the board to do a thousand dollar impact recognition stipend for every single one of our staff members," he said. Payroll staff indicated the payment would appear on the May 20 paycheck if processing proceeded as planned.
Trustees and staff credited voter-approved local funding and conservative budgeting for enabling the raises. Chief Financial Officer Ben Davidson and Assistant Superintendent Denise Miner described the plan as aligned with projected revenues and the district’s budget‑building process; Miner and Davidson also noted targeted adjustments for hard-to-fill special education positions via stipends and pay‑grade increases.
Board members voted by voice on the motion; the chair announced the motion carried. No roll-call tally was read into the record.
The district said administrators will communicate details to employees, including how the midpoint calculation applies to individual pay grades and what the 3% increase means in practice for non‑teacher staff. For staff groups with small populations (for example, some special education roles), human resources staff said they will notify employees individually about how the total package affects their pay.
