• Newly hired instructional employees for the school year shall receive credit for all years of verified acceptable experience up to the maximum pay step.
• Effective July 1, 2011, as provided in Florida Statutes 1012.22(1)(c)(3), teachers that are new to the District or teachers that are rehired after a break in service may receive pay for advanced degrees provided the degree is held in their area of certification.
  

Additional Payments

Benefit Enhancement Plan: Instructional employees who eligible for benefits receive an additional $300.00 on the Benefit Enhancement Plan which may be used towards reimbursement of benefits, enhancements or may be included in your annual salary.

Supplements: A variety of supplementary pay positions such as department chairpersons, coaching, team leaders, textbook coordinators, and club sponsors are available. They range from $300 - $10,000.
Other Supplements include: Speech Language Pathologist ($935), Speech Language Pathologist, who hold a valid certificate of Clinical Competence issued by the American Speech Language Association ($1,100), ESE Specialist ($935) & Visually Impaired Teachers ($3,000).
For a complete listing of available supplements access http://www.broward.k12.fl.us/employeerelations/salary_sched.htm

National Board Certified Teachers: Each National Board Certified classroom teacher is entitled to two separate monetary incentives: one from the state and one from the district. Each NBCT is entitled to these payments for the life of the certificate.*

Incentive Awards

The School Board of Broward County provides incentive awards for teachers who take courses or earn inservice points following their last degree (Bachelor's or Master's degree only). Teachers holding a Specialist or Doctorate degree are not eligible.

The teacher must hold a professional service contract (PSC). Annual contract (AC) teachers are not eligible. All new instructional employees are hired as annual contract (AC) teachers. If the employee completes three successful years with BCPS and holds a professional Florida educator’s certificate, the employee is eligible for their professional service contract (PSC). If an employee new to Broward, held PSC in another Florida county, the hiring principal may request that the new employee be given their professional service contract (PSC).

TYPE	STIPEND	REQUIREMENTS
Basic Incentive	$2,000	15 semester hours and/or 300 inservice points beyond the Bachelor’s or Master's Degree
Advanced Incentive	$2,700	30 semester hours and/or 600 inservice points beyond the Master's Degree and 10 years of Florida teaching experience.

You are only eligible for one incentive. For more information access: http://www.broward.k12.fl.us/certification/IncAwards.html

Teaching & Related Work Experience Credit

New hires employed by Broward County Public Schools are eligible to receive credit on the Instructional Salary Schedule for teaching experience and related work experience. The experience must be verified and approved prior to receiving credit. It is the responsibility of the new employee to have the experience verified. Credit may be given provided the employee was under contract, receiving benefits, worked the full academic/calendar year or at least one day more than half the year and worked full-time (37+ hours/week).

To receive credit for the current school year, the appropriate verification form must be received and approved by the District within four (4) months of employment.  The employer verification form will be given to you at the time of your clearance or you may download it. Prior to being hired, it is recommended that you send the appropriate employer verification form to your previous employer(s).

Click on the form you want to download:
Teaching Experience Form
Non-teaching Related Work Experience Form.

• Teaching (Instructional) Experience Credit

Teaching experience credit may be given if your teaching experience was completed at one or more of the following:

• Public school


• Private school that is accredited by a recognized agency


• Pre-school
  
• Teaching experience that was out of the country


• Full-time teaching experience at a college or university (Adjunct professors are not eligible.)

It is the responsibility of the new employee to have the experience verified. Your former employer(s) must complete the Employer Verification of Teaching Experience form and submit it to Human Resource Information System (HRIS) at 7720 W. Oakland Park Blvd., Sunrise FL 33351.

After you are hired and cleared, Personnel Records will notify you when your employer has submitted the Verification of Teaching Experience form(s). If approved, your salary will be adjusted; you will receive retroactive pay and notification.

• Speech Pathologists, Social Workers, Family Counselors, Physical/Occup. Therapists & School Psychologists Experience Credit

Instructional employees in this category receive salary credit year-for-year for verified and approved experience. If your experience was in a school setting, your employer must complete the Employer Verification of Teaching Experience form. If your experience was not in a school setting, your employer must complete the Employer Verification of Non-Teaching Work Related Experience form. It is the responsibility of the new employee to have the experience verified.

• Related Work Experience Credit

If you have had directly related full-time work experience, you may be eligible to receive experience credit on the salary schedule of verified experience not to exceed the maximum pay step. Your work experience must have been directly related to your teaching assignment (i.e. chemist teaching chemistry, nurse teaching science, marketing director teaching marketing, software developer teaching computers) and/or related to the instruction of children (i.e. director of a preschool, assistant principal, curriculum specialist). Experience as a substitute teacher, teacher aide or assistant (support positions) will not be considered for this purpose. The experience must have been completed after graduation from college and/or specialized training as a wage earner and appropriate to the field being taught and for which certification is requested.

Your former employer(s) must complete the Employer Verification of Non-Teaching Work Related Experience form and submit the original to Instructional Staffing. The form must be completed in its entirety, which includes a job description submitted by the employer and attached to the form. Incomplete forms will not be processed.

If the request for credit is for experience earned while self-employed or in a family owned business, verification from the accountant or attorney of record must be provided verifying the type of business conducted. The letter must indicate the length of time of self-employment, number of hours worked per week, and a description of your responsibilities. Verification will not be accepted from the applicant or a family member.

It is the responsibility of the new employee to have the experience verified. After you are hired and cleared, Instructional Staffing will notify you when your employer has submitted the Employer Verification of Non-teaching Work Related Experience form. If approved, your salary will be adjusted; you will receive retroactive pay and notification.