A-1. Salary Schedules

Understanding teacher salary tables

Note on differences to previous contracts

Previous contracts displayed salary schedules covering each Lane by year. This contract book shows for each Lane all years of the contract displayed in the same table - requiring less flipping of pages to look up salaries across years.

For teachers hired before 1/1/17, the “Total Comp” row in your salary table equals the sum of the “Salary” column and the pension pick-up (Article 36-4.1), which is 7% of “Salary”.

For teachers hired on or after 1/1/17, the “Total Comp” row in your salary table equals the sum of the “salary” row and an amount of added salary equal to the pension pickup (Article 36-4.1), which is 7% of “Salary”.

An employee’s gross annual salary moves to the “Base” column rate in the applicable lane and step of the salary schedule for a given fiscal year effective each July 1. Consistent with past practice, employees are awarded step increases after reaching their hire date anniversary, such that an employee’s gross annual salary will be at the “Base” column rate from July 1 in a fiscal year until their hire date anniversary, and then move to the “Base + Step” column rate after reaching their hire date anniversary. The “Base + Step” column in your salary table equals the sum of the “Base” column plus your step adjustment as shown in the step increments tables below.

Bi-weekly pay calculation

This section is designed to help you calculate your gross pay (pay before taxes, insurance and other deductions) for a typical 10-day period.

The August 14, 2023 Equal Paycheck Smoothing MOU (full text included in the Addenda) provides, amongst other things, “[T]he Parties desire to adopt a payroll calendar that will smooth the distribution of full time, non-52-week bargaining unit employees’ annual salaries by eliminating the 8 unpaid non-work days during the Work Year (“Work Year”) of an employee’s respective pay group (e.g., 208-day employee pay under Article 19 of the CBA being distributed across 216 days)”; and “The annual salaries of all full-time, non-52-week bargaining unit members will be distributed smoothly across each member’s Work Year, including the following 8 non-work smoothing days: (a) Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of the week of Thanksgiving; and (b) the Monday through Friday of the second week of Winter Break.”

For Teachers hired before 1/1/17, divide “Salary” by the number of days in your annual schedule + the 8 non-work smoothing days (e.g., 208 + 8 =216 for 208-day employees), and multiply by 10 or the number of days in the pay period.

For Teachers hired after 1/1/17, divide “Total Comp” by the number of days in your annual schedule + the 8 non-work smoothing days (e.g., 208 + 8 =216 for 208-day employees), and multiply by 10 or the number of days in the pay period.

Steps and years of credited service

The step adjustment values on the following page apply to teachers hired before 1/1/17. For teachers hired on or after 1/1/17, the step adjustment values are 7% higher, by virtue of the pension contribution change that went into effect on that date. Note that the “Total Comp” row in the salary tables on subsequent pages applies regardless of hire date and that all values are rounded to the nearest penny.

The schedules below depict the step names under the 2019-24 CBA and the 2024-28 CBA side-by-side for ease of reference. The 2019-24 step names are titled “FY25” and the 2024-28 step names are titled “FY26+” because CPS’s payroll systems adopted the new step names in FY26 when running the FY25 retroactive payments.