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Message: [QUOTE="twiceahusky, post: 4849480, member: 7126"] Teachers, just doing some research on our contractual salary vs. inflation. Our purchasing power is sure eroding recently. I'd guess most teachers have similar experiences. As we watch our purchasing power decrease, what are teachers experiencing? Acceptance, lack of awareness, anger? Are new contracts making up for this loss? ... certainly not the two recent ones that I have followed, where anticipated mid 2% raises were celebrated and will likely match future inflation, but will not help gain back lost ground. For one specific example, the chart below compares the contractual salary in my district vs applying the actual Social Security Administration COLA percent increases over the last decade (they try to account for inflation). I happened to choose top step (13), 6th year, as the information was readily available, and this is a step where a teacher likely could spend the last 20 years or so of their career. I'm not arguing whether or not teachers make too little or too much ... rather my position is that our raises should keep pace with inflation. Surely a defensible position. [ATTACH type="full" alt="1705413029862.png"]95248[/ATTACH] By the way, I also compared our pay increases to inflation (the Consumer Price Index) and both the Private and Government Employees Cost Indexes (shows percent growth in pay) ... they show very similar results. Any shared concern out there? I'm interest in others' views here. I certainly respect a lot of the opinions that I've seen from Boneyard teachers. [/QUOTE]

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