The Claremont School District and the Sugar River Education Association/NEA-NH (SREA) are pleased to share a resolution to the payroll schedule issue that arose in the last few weeks. Both the District and the Union heard the voices of employees loud and clear and worked together to collaborate on a solution that meets everyone’s needs by ensuring educators receive necessary budget relief now and that the District can ultimately transition to a payroll schedule that ensures employees receive their first paycheck after the first day of work and their last paycheck around their last day of work. The District and the union look forward to the start of school and are committed to open communication as any challenges arise.

Background:

The resolution, approved by the SREA voting membership, allows for salaried teaching staff to be paid on August 14th of this year, adding an additional paycheck for the 2026/27 school year (23 and 27 payrolls, rather than 22 and 26) so that the last payroll of the year will end on June 18th of 2027.  In this solution, employees who budgeted for their first paycheck to arrive on August 14th will have that relief. Adding one payroll to the schedule allows for a correct ending date in June of 2027 and ensures that the first payroll date for salaried teaching staff in the 2027-2028 school year will be at the end of the August, not the middle.