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living rise. This increase, added to the 2% cost of teachers advancing on the scale and the 5% increase occasioned by the “buy-in” to the index salary system which corrects present inequities in the budget would result in a total increase of 11% over the present payroll or a total payroll of $974,624, Smith said.
The RCEA, asked for increases in most extra duty supplements (those supplements received by teachers who coach sports or sponsor extra-curricular activities requiring substantial investments of time.)
Smith based the total supplements on the number of hours devoted to the activities multiplied by the minimum wage of $3.35 per hour. The varsity basketball coaches, for example, who spend 390 hours working with their teams during a season would receive $1,310, or the amount they would make if they worked those
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