west contra costa salary and benefits
DESCRIPTION
A grass-roots group of parents is fighting to narrow what they see as a troubling salary gap among teachers in West Contra Costa and other Bay Area districts, leaving the instructors struggling to keep up with the soaring cost of living.TRANSCRIPT
-
WCCUSDTeacherSalariesandBenefitscomparison
ThetablebelowcomparesteachersalariesandbenefitsfromWCCUSDwithsomeotherContraCostaCountydistricts:
ContraCostaCountySchoolDistricts20142015CredentialedTeacherSalaries
AverageValueofBenefits
StartingSalary 1 BA+45(Step5)
BA+60(Step10)
MaximumSalary
AverageValueofBenefits
JohnSwettUnified
$42,937 $46,511 $58,700 $77,495 $15,844
WestContraCostaUnified
$38,699 $47,785 $59,640 $79,951 $12,630
OakleyUnion $38,647 $49,217 $61,927 $78,742 $8,874Lafayette $43,032 $54,549 $66,357 $83,984 $15,148AntiochUnified $39,675 $55,288 $69,627 $88,457 $10,988AcalanesUnionHighSchoolDistrict
$42,224 $60,218 $74,048 $94,793 $17,133
MartinezUnified $43,832 $50,127 $65,077 $84,254 $17,176MountDiabloUnified 2
$47,422 $54,169 $65,474 $87,437 $6,298
SanRamonValley $47,074 $56,453 $71,484 $89,053 $13,195MoragaSchoolDistrict
$48,316 $53,292 $65,051 $82,133+ $17,473
BrentwoodUnion $50,861 $57,857 $74,122 $90,718 $6,847ContraCostaCountyAverage
$43,884 $53,224 $66,501 $85,488 $12,873
WCCUSDDifference(RaiseNeededtoReachContraCostaCountyAverage)
$5,185 $5,439 $6,861 $5,537 2%(AboveAverage)
AlamedaCountyAverage
$48,758 $56,857 $70,200 $89,681 $8,640
WCCUSDDifference(RaiseNeededtoReachAlamedaCountyAverage)
$10,059 $9,072 $10,560 $9,730 46%(AboveAverage)
1Listedsalariesareforfullycredentialedteachers.2Thesenumbersfor20152016;20142015wasnotavailableonline.
-
FormoredetailaboutsalariesinAlamedaCountyandthroughoutCalifornia,thereisananalysisfromearly2015ofsalarydatafromtheOaklandUnifiedSchoolDistrictathttp://www.goleadershipcenter.org/2015/03/compensation_comparison.php.Accordingtothisdocument,averageteachersalariesinAlamedaCountyrangefromastartingsalaryof$58,208toamaximumsalaryof$99,153.Thisdocumentalsocompareslargepublicdistrictswithahighpercentageoflowincome,Englishlanguagelearnersandfosterchildren(LCFF).Oaklandsunduplicatedpercentageis78%comparedtoWestContraCostaCountyspercentageof75%.Forthatgroup,theaveragesalariesrangefromastartingsalaryis$59,549toamaximumsalaryis$105,426.(NotethatthedistrictsinthatgrouparelargerthanWestContraCostaUnified;Oaklandhas~46,000studentsandStocktonhas~39,000studentscomparedwith~32,000inWCCUSD.)
AnothersourceofinformationforsalaryandbenefitinformationisTransparentCalifornia,whichincludesinformationaboutadministratorandteachersalariesandbenefitsbydistrict.
ThisinformationcompiledbyKensingtonparentReneeRubinRoss,[email protected].