In California’s public school system, each district negotiates a contract detailing salaries, benefits, and working conditions for its teachers through a collective bargaining process. This report provides information about teachers’ salaries and benefits and their credentials and experience. See Teachers in California for a more complete background and Negotiating Teachers’ Contracts in California for a description of how teachers’ employment contracts are determined.
Salary and benefit information in the following tables come from a teacher salary report (J-90) that districts are not required to file. About 20% (covering about 1% of the state's ADA) do not file and therefore will have no data in the Teacher Salary, Teacher Benefit, or Supplemental Salary tables.
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This information, the same as on the District Profile Report, comes from enrollment and teacher counts taken during the first half of the school year. |  |
District Description
Alameda City Unified, 2008-09
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District |
| Enrollment |
10,271 |
| Number of Teachers |
547 |
| Full-Time Equivalent Teacher Count1 |
514.2 |
| Pupil-Teacher Ratio2 |
20.0 |
| Average Class Size |
24.7 |
| 1 | Full-Time Equivalent counts show the number of actual teaching positions, whereas the Number of Teachers is all teachers employed regardless of their time base (i.e., teachers who team teach count as 2 teachers but only 1.0 FTE). | | 2 | Pupil-teacher ratios are usually smaller than average class sizes because all full-time equivalent teaching positions are counted, including those not assigned to regular classrooms. |
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| Source: Educational Demographics Office, CBEDS (assign08 7/27/09, vw_csopus 9/23/09, paif08 7/27/09)
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Teacher Salary Schedule - Annual Salary1
Alameda City Unified, 2008-09
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Statewide Average for
Unified School Districts |
| Lowest Offered |
$41,893 |
$40,322 |
| BA + 60 (Step 10) Offered2 |
$60,285 |
$62,602 |
| Highest Offered |
$79,883 |
$80,902 |
| Average Paid3 |
$64,092 |
$66,642 |
| 1 | These amounts do not include salaries for extended year, bonuses for special accomplishments, or payment for extra-curricular services such as coaching, drama or music. | | 2 | Bachelor of Arts degree plus 60 continuing education units | | 3 | Two districts with identical salary schedules could have different average salaries, depending on their teachers' years of experience and education. |
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| Source: School Fiscal Services Division, J-90 (fixdinfo 1/7/10, salxstep 1/7/10)
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| | The schedule for teachers' salaries is negotiated between representatives of the teachers’ union and the district's governing board.
Through this process, automatic increases in teachers' salaries are set according to years of experience and completion of additional education including, in some cases, professional development.
Since the Teacher Salary report (J-90) is not required by the state, the Statewide figures are based on responses from about 80% of districts, covering 99% of the state's ADA. |
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Most of the benefits offered to teachers are negotiated by the union and district governing board. Usually the largest part of a benefit package is for health insurance. Other items could include dental, vision and life insurance. Certain benefits, such as retirement and workers’ compensation, are required by law and are not part of negotiations. | |
Teacher Benefit Schedule - Maximum Annual Per-Employee Contribution1
Alameda City Unified, 2008-09
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District |
| Single Plan |
$5,413 |
| Two-Party Plan |
$6,886 |
| Family Plan |
$8,007 |
| Cafeteria Plan |
$0 |
| 1 | Maximum contribution amounts are for health and welfare benefits only and could include (depending on the district) health, dental, vision, and life insurance. |
| | Source: School Fiscal Services Division, J-90 (fixdinfo 1/7/10)
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FISCAL YEAR: 2008-09
