7th-8th grade science and language arts SIGNING BONUS $6,000.00

Additional Information

Start date is on August 11, 2025.  Hitchcock County Schools offers a competitive salary and benefit package that is commensurate with experience.  The base salary is $38,800 for the 2024-2025 school year. The district provides full family Blue Cross Blue Shield  health insurance with Type C dental, ten sick leave days, two professional days and three personal leave.

SIGNING BONUS: The school board agrees to pay a one-time bonus of  $6000.00   The hiring bonus is done as a single payment separate from the first entitled payroll.  The hiring bonus does not become a part of the employee’s index for placement on the salary schedule.   If, within three years of receiving such incentive pay, a teacher terminates his or her employment with the District for any reason other than termination of the teacher’s contract due to reduction in force, the teacher shall at once become liable to reimburse the District for such incentive pay as follows:

(a)    If the teacher completes less than one full year of the three-year obligation,

          the teacher shall fully reimburse the District for all incentive monies paid to the

teacher.

(b)  If the teacher completes one full year but less than two full years of the three

 year obligation, the teacher shall fully reimburse the District in an amount

 equal to two-thirds of the incentive monies paid to the teacher.

(c)   If the teacher completes two full years, but less than three full years of the

 three-year obligation, the teacher shall reimburse the District in an amount equal to

 one-third of the incentive monies paid to the teacher.

(d)  The amount of the bonus may in such a case be set off from the new employee’s final pay.