Whether your district’s salary guide needs major restructuring or only fine tuning, you can get the help you need from the New Jersey School Boards Association.

The NJSBA is proud to provide school districts with expert assistance preparing their new salary guides, through its low-cost salary guide development service. Customized and tailored to meet the individualized needs of each district, the NJSBA’s experienced labor relations professionals can assist in the development of a salary guide that helps your district achieve its goals. This service can even extend to negotiating salary guides with your union.

Benefits for NJSBA Members As a benefit of membership, the NJSBA provides a free analysis of expiring salary guides, identifying trouble spots and recommending strategies for resolving problems, followed by a comprehensive review of one set of proposed guides.

In addition to this free analysis, the NJSBA’s legal and labor relations professionals can provide customized fee-based services, such as an analysis of proposed guides, guide construction, and negotiations of guides with employee union representatives.

Teacher Salary Guide Wellness Check Districts and their staff/board negotiations committee can schedule an optional virtual conference with an NJSBA staff member, which includes a salary guide wellness check.

The teacher’s salary guide evaluation includes:

  • A structural analysis of the teacher’s base year, which is the last year of the expiring salary guide and the same base year of the union’s proposal.
  • A cost of increment analysis of the teacher’s expiring salary guide.
  • A cost analysis of the first set of proposed teacher salary guides.
  • A detailed memo outlining the findings.

The NJSBA’s salary guide development service is just one example of how the Association can help your district take some of the labor out of labor relations. For more information about this service, visit our website or contact Kurt Rebovich Jr. via email.