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ScienceWasLove t1_ja4mld8 wrote

Reply to comment by ktxhopem3276 in Pennsylvania Makes Progress Toward Public Employee Pension Sustainability by greenhousecrtv

There is absolutely no model for “higher starting salaries”. Salaries are determined district by district.

Perhaps Pittsburg did raise staring salaries because of the pension change, I have no idea if that is true. However a higher stating salary (if true) and an 11 year salary schedule is attractive. But the Pittsburg district also has $5,000 sign on bonuses right now….

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ktxhopem3276 t1_ja4tv2a wrote

they should raise starting salaries and let teachers have their money immediately instead of locking it up for years. Teachers don’t even pay the maximum social security benefit cap. The more people that rely on social security the better support it will get. When teachers and mailmen and other government employees carve themselves out with special pensions, that creates a division in the working class that makes it harder to mount a unified fight against special interests and big business

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ScienceWasLove t1_ja4vzjr wrote

Some principals and most superintendents and some other central office admin hit the max benefit. If they were capped, there would be money to go around.

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ktxhopem3276 t1_ja4w9v4 wrote

Not much more. It’s the shape of a pyramid with only a few at the top.

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