MPS Employees Begin To Feel Effects Of New Salary Schedules

This spring, Milwaukee Public School leaders agreed to reinstate employee salary schedules, which provide workers with predictable raises based on experience and education level. It’s a compensation system that MPS eliminated after Act 10 deprived unions of most bargaining powers. Now, the district is reversing course with the goal of stabilizing its workforce. The salary schedules are being implemented in three phases, and many details are still up in the air. But MPS’s lowest paid employees —