Manhattan Beach Unified · teacher salary schedule · 2004-05 to 2023-24

Has your pay kept up with inflation?

Enter where you were on the salary schedule. For each year, this looks up what your step and column paid, and compares it with what the same step and column would pay if the schedule had gone up exactly as fast as prices.

Your history

Example shown. Change the fields to your own.

First year to count Started before 2004-05? Choose 2004-05. Your step that year It goes up one step each year after. Your column that year Moved columns later? Set it on that year's row in the table. Last year to count

Inflation measure

U.S. average Los Angeles area

I have a doctorate (adds the $1,000 increment) Compare 2023-24 per work day (it has 185 days; earlier years have 183) Lag inflation one year: compare each year's pay with the year before's prices (raises are usually set from last year's inflation)

What you were paid, and what keeping up with inflation would have paid

Your pay on the schedule

Year by year

School year	Step	Column	You were paid		Difference	%

Where the numbers come from

Pay. The district's certificated salary schedules for teachers (183 work days), Columns I to VI. Printed schedules were used for 2004-05, 2005-06, 2007-08, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2021-22 and 2023-24.
Years with no printout (†). These were worked out from the raises printed on the schedules either side. 2006-07 is 2005-06 plus 3%. 2008-09 to 2010-11 match 2007-08, because the 2011-12 schedule is identical to it. 2014-15 is 2015-16 before its 4% raise. 2017-18 is 2016-17 plus 1%. 2020-21 matches 2019-20. 2022-23 is 2021-22 plus 6%. If you have those schedules, check them against the table.
Mid-year raises. The 2005-06 schedule took effect on February 1, 2006 and the 2016-17 schedule on January 1, 2017. This tool uses the printed schedule for the whole year, so pay in the first part of those two years was about 3% lower than shown.
2023-24 has two more work days. Its schedule is for 185 days (183+2). The annual figure is about 1.1% higher than it would be for 183 days. Tick the per-work-day box above to take that out.
Steps. Column I stops at Step 8 and Column II at Step 10, so pay stays at that step until you change column. After Step 15, pay changes only at Steps 20, 25 and 30.
Inflation. Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), all items, not seasonally adjusted, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: U.S. city average (series CUUR0000SA0) or Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim (CUURS49ASA0). Each school year uses the average of July through June. With the one-year lag ticked, each school year's pay is compared with the previous school year's prices, so 2004-05 pay is measured against 2003-04 prices (U.S. 186.092, Los Angeles area 189.358).
Not included. Stipends, extra-duty pay, one-time payments, benefits and deductions.
Unofficial. This is not a district or association document. Check anything important against your own pay records.