Diboll Independent School District’s (the District) pay structure is the key management tool that guides pay actions to help the district acquire proper relationship to the market place, maintains equity among all employees, and achieves district pay increases.  Within the pay structure, the District has established two categories of employees:

            Professional teachers, nurses and librarians
            All other employees

For the professional teachers, nurses and librarians, a scale system is used based on the minimum salary scale published by the Texas Education Agency (TEA).  The State minimum has been changed several times over the past year; most recently to include the teacher pay raise has mandated by HB1.  The District has increased pay for each step above the state minimum including the HB1 increases. 

The District adopted a pay structure for all other employees that involved setting the minimum, midpoint, and maximum rates of pay for each job family and ensuring that appropriate differences between jobs are established for pay equity.  The basis for building the pay structure is the midpoint of each pay range.  This value represents what different jobs are worth, on the average, to the district.  This means that jobs requiring more skill, effort, and responsibility are worth more to the district.  On average, they will be paid more than jobs requiring less skill, effort, and responsibility.  To maintain the pay structure the pay ranges must be moved upward.  Increasing the minimum, midpoint, and maximum rates using the same percent does this.  The vehicle for making these rate changes is the Consumer Price Index (CPI) as published by the United States Department of Labor for the preceding calendar year.  For the 2007-08 pay tables, the CPI was 2.5%.

The Diboll Independent School District Board of Trustees has approved this salary schedule for all DISD employees for the 2007-08 school year.