Focus Area: Investing in Our People

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In order to create a culture of excellence, FCCPS will invest in our employees by building structures that promote success and professional growth opportunities, cultivating intrinsic motivation and mutual reliance in a workplace culture that values every voice.

KEY ACTION: Recruit and retain diverse, high-quality staff, and provide regionally competitive salaries and benefits.

Timeline
2022 Research
2023 Development
2024 Implementation
2025 Review & Refinement
2026 Embedded

Success Looks Like This

Complete Sticker

In order to recruit and retain excellent employees, FCCPS will enhance employee salaries and benefits.

Activities in Superintendent's Proposed FY24 Budget

Approved FY 2024 Budget includes

  • 2% COLA and Step Increase for eligible employees.

  • Longevity bonus for those at the top of the salary scale.

  • Six weeks of paid parental leave for employees who have a child.

  • Sick leave payout increase for employees with more than five years of service

  • Health insurance rate decrease for less than full-time employees.

Evidence & Performance Measurements

  • With the finalization of the Calendar policy CC and regulation CC-R, all employees are eligible for two days of religious holiday leave per year.

  • FCCPS FY2024 Budget Approved May 9, 2023

Complete Sticker

FCCPS will complete a compensation study during the 2022-23 school year.

Activities

  • FCCPS partnered with Segal, an HR consulting firm, to conduct a compensation study.

  • Segal provided FCCPS School Board with an overview in December 2022.

  • In January 2022, Segal launched its study with an all-staff Zoom presentation. 

  • All employees given an opportunity to submit a job description questionnaire.

  • Compensation Study Presentation to School Board April 2023.

Evidence & Performance Measurements

  • Compensation Study completed in April 2023, and FCCPS salary improvements included in FY 2024 Budget.

  • FCCPS FY2024 Budget Approved May 9, 2023

Complete Sticker

By June 2023 FCCPS will adjust Extra Pay for Extra Duty stipends (EPED) to address internal and external equity.

Activities

  • The EPED Review Committee’s work is in process and will be released in Spring 2023.

  • The results of the EPED adjustments will be embedded in contracts beginning in the 2023-24 school year.

  • EPED Study Presentation to School Board April 2023.

Evidence & Performance Measurements

  • EPED Study completed in April 2023, and adjustments included in FY 2024 Budget.

  • FCCPS FY2024 Budget Approved May 9, 2023