Common use of Placement on Column Clause in Contracts

Placement on Column. Each employee shall be eligible for and shall receive the highest salary to which their highest degree and additional graduate hours entitle them. On the employees’ salary schedule, each vertical column shall represent an earned degree from an accredited institution of higher learning or an intermediate column between earned degrees representing additional earned graduate credit semester hours not already counted in an earned degree. Columns after the BS and/or MS shall include hours of credit earned after the graduation date of the employee’s respective degree. To be eligible for a degree column, the employee must have earned the degree that column specifies. These must be graduate hours in education or graduate hours related to their content area, hours taken in their professional field or graduate hours that have been approved by the Superintendent of Schools. Speech Language Pathologists who have their Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech Language Pathology will be in the Tier 2 column of the SLP Salary Schedule.