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 Teacher ProComp

Advanced Degrees

The salary building incentive for an advanced degree is a percentage of the ProComp Index. Currently the salary building incentive is: (9%) x(Index) x (Full Time Equivalent).  The incentive is added to your annual salary.

Eligibility

  • An advanced degree (masters, specialist degree, doctorate, etc.) must be from an accredited college or university and in a subject area related to a position in the DCTA bargaining unit. Advance Administration degrees are acceptable. Theology or Law degrees are not acceptable.
  • Grades must be a grade of D or above, Pass or Satisfactory.
  • Employees may be compensated for more than one advanced degree salary increase, although no employee will receive credit for more than one degree in a three year period.  The employee is responsible for resubmitting paperwork to trigger the payment for second and subsequent degrees. Any new or additional degrees can be submitted 2 months prior to the three year anniversary of the time the last advanced degree was recognized. Two separate degrees from a dual degree program can get salary increases three years apart.
  • An advanced degree can only be applied once. If an advanced degree has been previously applied to salary building or to a lane change, it cannot be applied again.

How to Receive Payment

  • Eligible Employees must be an active participant of ProComp and must have a status of active with benefits (AB), leave with pay (LP), leave summer pay/benefits (LR), or FMLA leave (LF status in Lawson, which is currently unused) at the time of initial payout in order to receive incentive payment.
  • To start the process, the employee submits the Employee Information Change Form to Payroll Business Services.  This form can be submitted at any time.  (Not only on January 1 and June 1 dates as with the master salary schedule.)  Include an original, official transcript with date and degree conferred, and proof of college/university accreditation.
  • The effective date of the increase in pay is the first of the month in which the completed paperwork was received.
  • Employees who submit completed paperwork by the 10th of the month should be paid on the end of the month paycheck.  If that deadline is missed, the employee will see the increase on the next pay date with retro-active pay to the first day of the month in which complete paperwork was submitted.
  • The amount of incentive pay is based on the the employee's current FTE.