Part 4
CISD currently spends 82% of our budget on salaries. This approximate 80-20 ratio of personnel to other operating expenses is interesting when considering some of our surrounding industry. In discussing this with a friend of mine who is in management in a local refinery, he stated that their ratio was the mirror opposite (20-80). Their product does not require the supervision, instruction, etc that our product requires and thus we must have a greater number of employees per volume of product. As stated in Part three we are funded at cost rather than receiving retail for our product and thus making it even more challenging to adequately compensate teachers.
In today’s financial climate there is little room for a salary increase. At CISD, a district of about 3700 students, we lost approximately $4.6 million in funding this year. As a result we have 117 fewer employees in 2011-2012 than 2010-2011. In addition, all stipends tied to content area incentives have been eliminated. With the projected funding in the next biennium we expect little or no salary increases. Although not impacting us at this time, due to the increase in teacher availability, we expect that this will make competing for quality teachers more difficult as more teachers retire and fewer enter the profession.
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