{"id":1526527,"date":"2026-07-21T03:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1526527"},"modified":"2026-07-21T04:34:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:34:41","slug":"new-compensation-package-raises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1526527","title":{"rendered":"New compensation package, raises"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TYLER – The TISD school board voted Monday to approve a new compensation package for the 2026-2027 school year covering teachers, staff, police officers, coaches, and support employees. Teachers will earn between $50,500 and $75,000 based on years of experience. A beginning non-certified teacher will earn $50,500. A teacher with 31 or more years of experience will earn $75,000. Teachers will also receive a $500 retention stipend paid in August 2026. Eligibility for the stipend is contingent upon returning to work for the 2027 spring semester.<\/p>\n

Bilingual and special education teachers will each receive an additional $4,000 stipend on top of their base pay.
\nDistrict police compensation<\/p>\n

District police officers are compensated on a three-level hourly scale based on years of service. Level 1 officers with zero to two years of experience earn $27.18 per hour. Level 2 officers with three to seven years earn $29.27 per hour. Level 3 officers with eight or more years earn $31.36 per hour. Lead, tactical, and other officers earn $33.45 per hour.<\/p>\n

Officers also receive monthly certification pay \u2014 $75 for intermediate, $150 for advanced, and $225 for master certification \u2014 as well as annual stipends ranging from $1,000 for officers with zero to five years of service up to $5,000 for those with 20 or more years.<\/p>\n

Raises for other employees<\/strong><\/p>\n

All other employees will receive a 3% raise based on their pay grade midpoint. The package covers professional employees, clerical and technical staff, manual trades employees, bus drivers, and mechanics.<\/p>\n

Bus drivers earn between $18.36 and $27.23 per hour, with a 3% midpoint raise of $0.68 per hour. Mechanics earn between $19.09 and $26.52 per hour, also with a $0.68 per hour raise.
\nExtra duty and summer school rates<\/p>\n

Employees who work extra duty assignments outside their regular contracts are paid at set rates. Tutoring rates range from $12 per hour for college or high school students and paraprofessionals up to $25 per hour for certified teachers. Summer school lead teachers earn $32 per day, and program administrators earn $304 per full day or $38 per hour for less than a full day.<\/p>\n

Any stipends or extra duty pay not listed in the approved schedule must be approved by both Human Resources and Financial Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER – The TISD school board voted Monday to approve a new compensation package for the 2026-2027 school year covering teachers, staff, police officers, coaches, and support employees. Teachers will earn between $50,500 and $75,000 based on years of experience. A beginning non-certified teacher will earn $50,500. A teacher with 31 or more years of … Continue reading New compensation package, raises<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1526528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 12:44:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1526527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526530,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526527\/revisions\/1526530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1526528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1526527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1526527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1526527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}