§ 45043 Minimum Teacher Compensation Semester

• •If a school hires a teacher or other certified staff in the middle of the school year (starting the second semester), they must pay them at least half of what they would earn in a full year.
• •This rule makes sure that teachers hired late in the year still get fair pay, even if they didn’t work the whole year.
• •The law overrides any other rules that might say otherwise about pay for these late hires.

A school hires a new math teacher in January, halfway through the school year.

The school must pay the teacher at least half of what a full-year math teacher would earn, even though they only worked half the year.