South Carolina’s House budget committee wants to give all teachers a $1,500 raise to change how much teachers are paid. The starting pay will go up from $47,000 to $48,500 because of this change. It will affect about 45 school districts where the current starting salaries are less than this new level.
Governor Henry McMaster wants to raise starting teacher pay to $50,000 by 2026. This increase is not enough to meet that goal. An extra $200 million a year would have to be spent to reach this goal.
Also, the pay scale will be simplified from five lanes to four by getting rid of the lane for a bachelor’s degree plus 18 hours of ongoing education. Most of the teachers in this group already have a master’s degree.
Even though the pay raise is a good thing, South Carolina still has over 1,000 teacher jobs that need to be filled. The state is now near the top in the Southeast for starting and average teacher pay thanks to efforts to raise wages. This helps with ongoing efforts to deal with a lack of teachers.
The budget plan is being looked at right now, and more talks about it will happen in the next few weeks.
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