St. Landry starting teacher pay rises to $41,000

Pay for a beginning teacher in St. Landry Parish increased to about $41,000 annually on Thursday, when the School Board gave all employees a $1,380 pay raise.
Supt. Michael Nassif stressed to the board at its July meeting that the increase is a permanent raise, not a one-time supplement.
Support workers got a $1,000 supplement from the state last year, a payment that was not renewed and funded in the fiscal year which started Tuesday.
Nassif said the system is particularly glad to be able to replace that lost $1,000 for those employees.
The raises are funded by balances available in two funds dedicated to employee pay - one generated by a sales tax and the other by property tax millage.
The cost of the increase for the system’s 2,156 employes is $2.9 million, the approximate balance in those funds.
Twelve-month employees will realize the first payment of the increase in their July checks. New employees and nine-month employees will see the increase in September checks.