Retroactive Payment Estimates 2024

How the withheld taxes on your retro payment will be calculated.

August 19th, 2024 UPDATE:
The payment will be made on the paychecque of August 29th, 2024. 
The interest accrued since August 9th will be included on the same paychecque.












​The Provincial Agreement has been signed. This means that there are sixty calendar days until our retro payments are due, making their deadline August 9th, 2024. If this deadline is not met, interest will begin to accrue from this date. 

How do you know if your retroactive pay is correct?

A couple of points:

1. Everyone’s retro will be somewhat different from others, even on the same step.
2. Taxes, pension, and depending on your total earnings, QPP, EI and other deductibles will be withheld.
3. Any type of unpaid or partially paid leave taken within the retroactive period will affect the amounts owed to you. This includes all types of parental leave, sick leave, partial leaves etc.
4. Workload percentage will affect back pay too.

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For example, a High School teacher was on parental leave. For the weeks where only QPIP was received, no retroactive salary will be paid for this period. There was no salary from the school board earned during that period, to be subject to the pay increases. For the period where she was back at work, retroactive pay will be calculated. 

Another example would be a part-time teacher who had two weeks of no work between contracts within a year. This teacher would not earn retroactive pay for those two weeks of not working, so their payout would be lower by 5% (10 days out of 200 not worked). 

There was an increase in substitution rates. Therefore, casual supply will generate a retroactive payment.

The provided calculations have two red columns, one for each raise that occurred. The second red column accounts for the fact that the retroactivity from April 2024 is only for 8 of a year’s 26 payments, not a full school year. The total of these two columns is the teal column at the far right, which is the approximate gross* repayment that someone on that step can expect, based on a full 100% workload. 

*Gross amounts calculated are before any deductions are made. All retroactive payments will be subject to all deductions usually taken off of every paycheck (varies by teacher).

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