School bus driver salary boston7/22/2023 ![]() We have runs that range from 3 run packages to 12 packages a day. Some times they just sit in the garage and wait for a bus to break down, or a driver that doesnt come in ETC. The district that I work for in Michigan is $13.32 a run, our runs are about 15 to 20 min long, subs are guarenteed 3 runs a day. Certainly overtime is time and one-half, guaranteed 4 hours. Thats guaranteed 8 hrs/day, 12 months/year, annual cost of living and merit increase. My drivers' salary range is a starting rate $12.43 p/h and top out at $17.95. Benefits vary from contractor to contractor, and are company paid if you work for the school district itself. Your typical run in Philly is about 6-8 hours a day and there is plenty of work for you to do all year around. Trips are typically flat rated starting at about $40. School bus drivers in Philadelphia are starting at about $12 an hour. Districts would not then be scrambling for subs and ways to keep drivers from quitting - the answer is simple and obvious to me. As I'm sure most of us agree, we're not really in it for the money, but it sure would be nice to make a little more for the efforts. I agree with more of you - if districts don't start acknowledging our responsibility and professionalism (well for most of us anyhow then ) then they will lose the drivers who really DO care. Our top paid driver is only making 11.74/hr and she has been driving for 16 years at the same district. Starting salary for our district is 10.86/hr for route and 11.17/hr for field trips or anything other than your route. Must be nice, that's all I've got to say. What state are you in, and are you hiring? Most weeks she is between 35-40hrs if there are few feild trips. If she goes over 40hrs a week which she has done a lot of this year she gets time and half. She gets the same pay weather she is parked waiting for kids or driving. Top of the scale for driver pay right now is almost $22 an hour. My driver gets just under $20 an hour after about 22 years of driving. (Considering it used to be minimum wage $6 sounds pretty good.) I usually take home between $350 and $450 every two weeks. Field trips pay the same rate as routes while we are driving but we drop to $6 an hour while waiting. Since we are contract, they do not take anything out for summer, and we get unemployment. ![]() That is right Fulton County School Bus Drivers are the highest pay drivers in the state of Georgia.That is why so many driver leave their County to drive for Fulton.I know one bus driver who live in Clayton County.She drove For Clayton school system for a week ,and left for Fulton for better pay and benifits.Also she hated driving the old buses that had stick.Also we are one the largest school transportation in the metro area along with four other schools transportation.Fulton County have 1,300 or more buses. Back in Pittsburgh the contractor i worked for paid $47 a day with no benifits or anything. We are the highest paid drivers in the state of Georgia, but Metro Atlanta is in Fulton County so we put up with a lot more than most other drivers in the state do. You don't have to be crazy to be a school bus driver, but it sure does help!!įulton County School Dist pays up $938 a month plus benifits. I hope the school districts and independent contractors figure this one out soon!! If bus drivers were properly compensated, they would have more than enough drivers, and have their pick of the best! Ask their parents, these kids' safety is worth a lot more than that!! If you divide my daily wage by the number of students I haul safely each day, it comes out to $0.46 per student. When it comes right down to the amount of responsibily we have on our hands, the pay is downright insulting. That amounts to an extra $40.00 a month (minus Uncle Sam's share!) We also receive and bonus for no absences and no preventable accidents. It will drop to about $70.00 a month next school year! That doesn't cover any other family members, though, just myself. The longer you work there, the less you have to pay. Once out and once back a day is enough for me!! I'm not sure, because I choose not to do any extra trips. School sports and field trips are paid on a different scale. Most of our regular runs are between 4 and 5 hours a day. (Our times are established at the beginning of the school year.) After 5 years of service, I earn $10.50 an hour. We miss 1/2 day, we lose 1/2 days pay.And we have to pay about 150.00 towards a family plan in insurance. We do not have to stay on staff between ee to go work other jobs, except in winter, have to be on call during incliment weather. Do you get paid by the hour? By the Day? And how much? Are there other responsibilities that go along with your driving duties? Are you paid extra for activity runs? We get about $53.00 a day (10-years service) last step in payscale.
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