Salaries for Alamance-Burlington school system employees are being run as a part of the news-paper’s ongoing efforts to provide detailed financial information about local government agencies. The newspaper published salaries for county government and the five largest local municipalities earlier in 2025.
The school system provided the following information for all ABSS employees, all of which is to be publicly available by statute:
- Full name;
- Date of hire;
- Current job title/assigned station; and
- Current annual salary, as of February 1, 2025.
The materials that ABSS furnished in response to the public records request lacked the total compensation received during the previous year (2024), the value of benefits, and assigned locations/schools for approximately 3,870 full-time, part-time, and temporary employees.
ABSS provided current salaries at the time by line item, or type of pay, for each employee.
In other words, regular salary, the local county-paid supplement, coaching supplement (if any), bus driver pay (if any), or any other special pay for individual employees was listed separately, making it difficult to tabulate the “total” salary.
The salary information furnished by ABSS lacked a breakdown of the value of employee benefits such as employer-matching health insurance and retirement contributions. It did include separate lines listing the amount of county-funded supplement each eligible employee received as well as state-funded compensation for longevity – minus the total amount of compensation for each person.
In response to a subsequent request for clarification, ABSS chief communications officer Emily-Lynn Adkins told the newspaper in early 2025 that the employer matching portion for state health insurance benefits is $674.62 per employee, per month.
The communications officer also said that the value of employer-matching contributions for retirement benefits represents 24.04 percent of each eligible employee’s gross pay.
The records furnished by ABSS also lacked the requested location to which each employee was assigned when the public records request was submitted earlier this year. The school system instead furnished a partial list of site codes, which are used at the state level for school business reporting and other data collection purposes.
The newspaper also sought additional clarification about the total compensation for substitute teachers, who are paid a daily rate set by the State Board of Education (SBE). For the 2024-25 fiscal year, daily pay rates for substitutes ranged between a minimum of $93/day and a maximum of $186/day, depending upon whether they hold a state teaching license, according to the SBE.
Other ABSS employees are paid on a state salary scheduled based on years of experience and level of education, according to the state Department of Public Instruction (DPI). Certified employees such as principals, assistant principals, teachers, and other staff whose positions require a state educator’s license also receive an annual county-funded supplement, which is calculated as a percentage of their state-funded salaries and is based on consecutive years of employment with ABSS.
The underlying state salaries — which provide the basis for most ABSS employees’ salaries – have not been changed by the General Assembly during 2025, due to the ongoing impasse over a state budget between the state house and state senate.
However, most of the salaries should still be accurate. (It is possible that the computer program used by the newspaper may not have calculated everything properly because of coding differences or other technical issues, but the newspaper is confident enough to provide the following information.)
A public records request filed by the newspaper with ABSS superintendent Dr. Aaron Fleming last month requests the specifics on those adjustments, which were provided to more than 300 ABSS employees during the past six months.
Once that information has been furnished, the newspaper will run the updated information for the employees whose salaries were changed.
Part 2 salaries (Cr-Gr) can be viewed HERE
Earlier (Part 1 salaries, A-Cr) can be viewed HERE
