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Originally Posted by Chatbrat
in NJ teachers are allowed to bank unused sick days, it adds up to a nice severance package upon retirement also teachers get extra pay for coaching and other duties
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"Banked sick day payment at retirement" has to do with the contract negotiated with the local school district as well and not the State (in NJ). In our school district my wife had many hundreds of "banked" sick days which we REALLY thought she could get when she left. She rarely ever used one unlike a lot of employees who took every one every year. When she retired after ~35 years she received 50% payment for only 100 of them. Not quite the "windfall" for barely ever calling in sick for 35 years. She "donated" what was left to the "district sickday pool" where employees with serious illnesses and ran out of sick days could draw from them to which she and others donated over the years as well. Again, all based on the local school district contract negotiations not just living in NJ. The variance between districts with regard to benefits and "perks" is quite high. The only thing I believe that was fully controlled by just the State was the actual pension amounts and the medical benefits upon retirement.