Below are listed all Conejo Valley Unified School District employees who were paid in 2020, by name, job title, base salary, overtime pay, other pay, total pay and benefits. In the rapidly shrinking Conejo Valley public school district (whose enrollment stands at just over 15,000 students), 842 employees made six-figure incomes in 2020, and 3,287 people were employed by the school district in total, according to public records published by transparentcalifornia.com.
Local Public Schools’ Salary Bonanza As Test Scores Sag, Pay Packages Soar for School District Employees
As an employee of CVUSD, with my name on this list, I can tell you this information is 100% incorrect. This claims my salary is 128,000, which is not true. Where did you get your information? Whatever happened to responsible journalism?
From public records provided by transparentcalifornia.com!!!
This is incredibly inaccurate and misleading. I would like to see your breakdown of how you got to these numbers. This is not what people bring home. This is pre-taxes and with medical benefits. People’s salaries are on the district’s website for everyone to see. You are misleading the public and outright lying to them. You said that scores are going down but salaries are going up. How can this be, when there has not been state testing in 2 years. You guys really need to be transparent and up front with your intent. You should be ashamed of how misleading this is and putting people’s names and salaries in the paper without their permission is abhorrent.
These CVUSD salaries are public information and can be printed without permission/consent. Anonymous
Teachers are classified as public employees, which means information like salary is a matter of public record. Because these salaries are paid using taxpayer money, the public has the right to know how the money is being used.
It’s not accurate by any means. Salary is way off lol! And test scores are some of the best on the county. If you don’t like it, then teach yourself. Have a great weekend!
This is incredibly misleading and inaccurate. You should be ashamed of yourselves. These numbers are pre-taxes and include medical and retirement. If you think those numbers are even close to what teachers are actually making, you are, sadly, very mistaken. Teachers are vastly underpaid, just as they always have been. State testing scores were lower last school year because we were navigating school during a PANDEMIC. Teachers are working harder than ever to ensure students are getting a quality education. So disappointed in The Guardian.
Wah. Wah. Wah. These numbers are not misleading. What’s misleading is the school unions always crying for more money. These numbers are “public records.” Of course these numbers are pretax. And they of course they include medical and dental benefits. It’s the total package. BUT what it doesn’t include and reflect is the pension package when the employee retires; they will still get paid a % of their salary, medical and dental benefits until they die which can easily double this current salary package! THIS is called “TRUE” transparency. I’m the taxpayer therefore I’m the CEO of the company, CVUSD.
Tax-exempt blog with anonymous donor demands accountability.
I’m also a taxpayer and I’m happy to take care of the elderly. What do you suggest people should do after they retire?
Teachers are classified as public employees, which means information like salary is public record. Because these salaries are paid using taxpayer money, the public has the right to know how the money is being used.
What’s so radical about retirement? Is it really a scandal that a teacher may one day retire?
The money we teachers pay to STRS for that retirement package is included in these numbers. Yes, that’s right…we pay out of our earnings for those retirement packages. And way more than John Q. Public pays into Social Security for less than proportionate benefits. Last year, my base salary was approximately $90k. Out of my checks, I paid approximately $2k towards my family’s health/dental insurance, and I paid approximately $10k to STRS (state teachers retirement). Then I had the standard state, federal, and Medicare taxes, too. If I were 62 and able to retire today with 34 years of service credit (which is what I will have when I’m 62), my pension would be approximately $5,300 per month. My district, PVSD, will pay no more than $2,400 per year towards a retiree catastrophic health and welfare program. The lifetime health benefits only covers those hired before 1984. I don’t know where you get the idea that today’s teachers have lavish retirement packages. You’d have to look at firefighters and police officers for those.
This article is so misleading. My daughter is a teacher on this list and brings home a little more than 3k a month. Rents in the area are that! It is not a livable wage. Teachers are under paid! Your article does not explain that you could take any individual who has a job and add in factors to inflate their income. Be transparent Guardian.
There’s a lot of dark money behind this organization posing as an independent newspaper, and it’s about as far away as you can get from transparent. The only thing that’s pretty obvious to me by now is that they are ideologically opposed to the whole concept of access to free public education as a basic human right.
For anyone who actually cares about the truth, the pre-tax certificated salary schedule is available on the district’s website at the url below:
https://www.conejousd.org/Departments/Human-Resources/Certificated-HR/Certificated-Salary-Schedules
This “story” is so baseless and deliberately misleading. Your “journalist” is regurgitating Fox News anti-teacher rhetoric. Teachers are not the enemy, but trash like this adds fuel to Right’s bizarre hatred of public school teachers. Those numbers are not accurate and do not reflect health insurance and pension contributions. None of that is acknowledged.
Also, like someone else said, there hasn’t been state testing in 2 years due to the GLOBAL PANDEMIC and public school teachers scrambling to do their best for their students in unprecedented times with little to no guidance and minimal resources. Teachers are doing their best to support children who have been out of the classroom for 2 years. For some kids, this is their first year in a classroom and they are in second grade!!!! Do you have any idea what that is like? A 7 year old with no social skills for the classroom. You’re dealing with management issues plus trying to teach 20 different learners?!? And you’re told to differentiate for every learner, but we give them outrageously difficult and developmentally inappropriate standardized tests. And then you want to judge the teacher because Alejandro barely speaks English and hasn’t been in a classroom to two years, hasn’t been receiving ELL support services, any SPED services at all, but he’s expected to take the same test as Becky who is fluent in English, whose mother is home all day and was able to support her during zoom school, who had a quiet area to work during the pandemic, and reads at 5th grade level in second grade? Fuck outta here. Imagine judging dentists by how well their patients brush their own teeth.
If anyone who reads this has an issue with how much public school teachers are getting paid: 1) shut the fuck up. 2) How have you supported your local teachers? When do you go and volunteer? When do you drop off supplies for the classroom? There’s a nationwide shortage of teachers. This bullshit is a huge reason why. Teaching is one of the most difficult jobs with extremely low pay compared to other professionals with similar graduate level degrees of education. Sign up. Become a sub. If you can do it better, then hop to it.
You could have told your 3 readers to google the information about salaries since it’s public record, but you decided to print the names. Lazy, wasteful, and inaccurate. Shame on you. This article is trash. Support your public school teachers! Do better!!
Who wrote the article? What is their name? And how much do they make? Don’t hide behind “guardian staff” as you write completely inaccurate, defamatory articles. Publish the name of the author. You want to come for public school teachers? Don’t be a coward. Share your name.
I think “one experienced member of the law enforcement community” is the only name that you will get from this trash publication.
It was AWESOME to see the salaries of the employees of the Conejo Unified School District.
KFI radio has said that California teachers are the highest paid in the nation.
As a taxpayer, who pays for the salary of the employees of the district, this is my right to know and boy! what an eye-opener!
As a public employee, there is no “hiding”. District employees don’t work for a “private” company. As a “public” employee, there is no “hiding”.
You work for me and you bet I want to know who is getting my tax dollars and how much.
Bravo Guardian!
I make an honest living and never had any intention of hiding my salary and expenses.
I generally bring home about $4000 a month, pay $3000 for rent and bills, and about $500 for childcare. The rest goes to groceries. My lady still owes about $50K in student loans.
We all work and pay taxes, I’m happy to do it. We give it all back into the economy. If you’re running a business, I’m sure I’d be a great customer there as well.
Pride, resentment, and penny-pinching will only put the economy in recession.
Teachers are classified as public employees, which means information like salary is public record. Because these salaries are paid using taxpayer money, the public has the right to know how the money is being used.
I honestly find it disgusting how your so-called reporting is void of any facts, and your outright disdain for public education (but in line with one of the core beliefs of your supreme leader and your financial backer, Rob McCoy) is despicable! You’re making targets out of our teachers! And most of these numbers have no basis in reality! Amy Chen, stop slandering our schools!
We live next door to a couple teacher couples. We’re always commenting when we drive by the houses with the BMW’s, Porsches… “How much do these people get paid!” I guess now that mystery is solved. WOW it’s out of control.
It’s not very likely that they’re collecting cars with their teacher salary. It’s possible some people can inherit or accumulate personal wealth over several generations, but that’s their business.
“Overpaid” teacher here. Thanks so much for this publication. May I order a class set of 36? I’ll use it in conjunction with my Holocaust unit when we do a deep dive into Nazi propaganda and how Hitler used misinformation and disinformation to turn an entire population against another. This fits right in!
What happened to my comment I left this morning asking for a class set of 36 copies of your paper so I can use it to teach about Nazi propaganda when I teach my Holocaust unit? This morning there were about 15 negative comments about your ridiculous article, I mean paragraph, about teachers’ pay. Have your “writers” ever taken journalism classes? Are you aware that there are rules governing good journalistic practices? These are topics that are covered in English classes all over the Conejo Valley which are taught by all of those “overpaid” teachers you seem to hate so much.
Teachers are classified as public employees, which means information like salary is public record. Because these salaries are paid using taxpayer money, the public has the right to know how the money is being used.
https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
Love reading the comments by the unhinged leftist loosing their collective minds on this… How dare you share public information on salaries of pubic employees!!!! Maybe Karin (how appropriate) can report this to the Ministry of Truth.
Keep doing what you’re doing and get the word out!!!
I wonder why several commenters imply these salaries are misleading because they’re pre-tax. In my experience salaries are almost always stated pre-tax. Why would it be different for school district employees?
And why would it be misleading to include cost of benefits? That’s part of compensation. Doesn’t everyone consider the value of the benefits they get from their job?
Presumably these numbers don’t reflect the dollar value of all the days off they get in a year. What a benefit!
I love teachers — well, at least the good ones, and most of them are good — but some of the commenters here doth protest too much. It’s of course true that taxpayers are spending a lot of money on each of these teachers.
Everyone should be paid well, get good benefits, enjoy time off with family and retire with dignity.
Could you please post the same information about the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department and the Ventura County Fire Department?
THANKS JOE for the link to the CVUSD compensation page. It helps the math. I truly appreciate the teaching profession and that some parents send ill-prepared kids to class for teachers to teach what parents should teach in the home, LIKE WHEN, HOW and WHY to have SEX.
I also appreciate school administrators who must swallow woke garbage from a never-ending conveyor belt powered by entitled UNIONS and the POLITICIANS they fund through highly coerced union dues and peer group intimidation.
So, without further qualification and disclaimer, may I present a narrowing and honing of the compensation of Conejo Valley Unified School District.
With a 185 school work days per year for teachers, one must multiply the district stated salary (pretax, prebenefit, pre add-on certifications or anniversary increments) by 1.97 to accurately reflect the annual base compensation.
Given the adjusted mathematical algorithm above, the minimum teacher salary adjusted for work days is $104, 210.45 and the maximum is $207,256.85
Source: https://www.conejousd.org/Portals/0/Departments/Personnel%20Services/Certificated/Documents/Salary%20Schedules/2022-2023/UACT%202022-2023%20rev%207.1.22.pdf?ver=2022-04-01-074150-813
With a 203 school work days per year for class 8-9 administrators, one must multiply the district stated salary (pretax, prebenefit, pre add-on certifications or anniversary increments) by 1.798 to accurately reflect the annual base compensation.
Given the adjusted mathematical algorithm above, the minimum class 8-9 administrator salary adjusted for work days is $183,788.39 and the maximum is $242,322.22
With a 220 school work days per year for class 3 administrators, one must multiply the district stated salary (pretax, prebenefit, pre add-on certifications or anniversary increments) by 1.659 to accurately reflect the annual base compensation.
Given the adjusted mathematical algorithm above, the minimum class 3 administrator salary adjusted for work days is $238,388.13 and the maximum is $277,194.25
Source: https://www.conejousd.org/Portals/0/Departments/Personnel%20Services/Certificated/Documents/Salary%20Schedules/2022-2023/Cert%20Mgmt%202022-2023%20rev%207.1.22.pdf?ver=2022-04-01-074402-443
Not sure how you’re figuring your scaling factor. Surely you’re not expecting educators to be on the clock all 365 days of the year. Someone who works 5 days every week, 50 weeks out of the year works a total of 250 days. Also, there are 180 days of school but 185 teacher work days, so the scaling factor would be closer to 1.35. But it’s still not a reasonable comparison.
Do you know any teachers? I mean personally. Do you know any spouses of teachers? Ask them how many days the typical teacher works, and then ask them how many hours they work each day. That 185 day contract with 7:55-3:15 work hours only covers the time teachers are required to be at school, supervising children. The hours of work in the afternoons and evenings add up quickly, as do the days of unpaid labor setting up classrooms and preparing 180 days of engaging and supportive lessons (15 minutes before and after school isn’t enough time to get that done). And God forbid a teacher gets sick and has to spend 3-4 hours preparing for a sub so they can “not work.” The fact of the matter is that you can’t compare teacher workload to other professions. There’s just nothing like it.
Teachers need to be paid so much more than this. What do we ened to do to give them all pay increases?