Pay Increases for GR School Employees

Pay increases for all employees in the Green River school district will highlight Tuesday nights Green River school board meeting. The board and the Green River education association recently hammered out an employee agreement and according to that agreement, teachers in the district will see right at a 3 percent increase in pay. The proposal is for a 500 dollar increase in the districts base pay, which is the pay first year teachers recieve. The new base will be 45,782 dollars. Teachers will be allowed a vertical step, 712 dollars, and a horizontal step, 1,017 dollars. Support staff, who qualify, will receive a 35 cent per hour increase. The district will also hand out a 500 dollar stipend to be paid on November 30th for teachers, while support staff will receive 14 cents per hour based on their annually scheduled hours. Insurance for the district and the employees will increase. Covered employees will be paying an increase of 193 dollars per year for family coverage and 90 dollars per year for single coverage.
The District will pay the additional employee contribution of 1.43 percent of gross pay for the Wyoming Retirement system.
The GREA approved the contract in May, and the board is expected to approve the deal at there meeting Tuesday night(tonight). The school board meeting is set for 7pm at the Central Adminstration building.