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But Levell understands why more and more of his colleagues are
fleeing their jobs, and why the Eugene School District - like school
systems across Oregon and elsewhere - is scrambling to find and keep
qualified replacements. Given the low pay, daily stress and odd,
part-time hours, it simply doesn't make sense for most people, he
said.
an hour, up from $11.89, Labor Relations Director Ted Heid said. Minimum
wage in Oregon is $7.95.
"I think one thing is that over the last four or five years,
the labor market has improved and there were better, higher-paying jobs
out there," he said.
Working with the local chapter of the Oregon School Employees
Association, which represents bus drivers and custodians, the district
regularly conducts market surveys to see how its wages for particular
positions hold up in both the public and private sectors.
Simmons said, but for now the board agreed to boost only entry-level
pay.
The district also surveyed bus driver wages and found that, while
they're fairly comparable to those in nearby school districts, they
lag well behind pay for most public- and private--sector driving jobs,
Heid said.
"We start drawing from our staff and taking them away from
what they're doing," she said.
And once a hire is made, the odds of the driver staying more than a
year have slimmed, she noted. Of the drivers hired in 2002-03, for
example, 88 percent stayed for a second year; last year, just 66 percent
did so - although that was up from 58 percent of the previous
year's crop.
While most of those drivers left for other jobs, terminations are
also on the rise. In her memo to the board, Anderson said she had to
fire three drivers in 2005-06 "for issues directly related to
student safety and/or severe student behavior management problems,"
compared to two per year the previous four years and one per year the
three years before that.