Starting this year, all employees will receive a compensation statement via pony. The compensation statements were piloted last year with select employee groups and are going out to all employee groups for the 2017-2018 school year.
Why am I Receiving a Total Compensation Statement?
The District has a Compensation Task Force made up of Teachers, Paraprofessionals, Auxiliary staff, Parents and Community Members. This group meets annually to review current District compensation packages and to explore different ways to compensate employees. Each year, the Task Force makes recommendations to the School Board. These recommendations include items for the following school year as well as long-term goals that they would like to pursue.
Task Force Members helped develop this statement as a way to provide employees with a picture of the total compensation they are receiving. The Task Force expressed that even though the information is available on the employee portal, it was important that employees receive a hard copy to review. The statement is prepared following the first payroll run of the school year in order to ensure the statement is as accurate as possible. This is the first year providing this statement to all employees and we look forward to your feedback.
*Please Note: You can view all of your selected benefits and deductions by logging into the employee portal and viewing your deduction information: https://itccs.esc13.net:3074/wempacc?distid=046902
Although care has been taken to make this statement as accurate as possible, the actual pay and benefits you realize may differ. Please contact the Department of Human Resources and Customer Service at hr@comalisd.org with any questions you may have.
The following items have been defined to assist you in reviewing your statement:
What are Government Mandated Benefits?
State and Federal governments require employers to pay taxes, insurance, and make contributions on- behalf of employees for various programs. Please see below for descriptions of the items that have been included on this statement.
TRS On-Behalf Of
TRS is the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS). This is the State contribution to TRS on-behalf of each eligible employee. Comal ISD eligible employees contribute to TRS rather than Federal Social Security. TRS is a defined benefit retirement plan that is a qualified pension trust under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code. The pension trust fund provides service and disability retirement, as well as death and survivor benefits, to eligible Texas public education employees and their beneficiaries.
TRS CARE
In addition to employee contributions, the District contributes to the TRS-Care fund (retiree health insurance) on-behalf of each TRS eligible employee. This is the insurance plan that is available to retirees from TRS.
TRS NON-OASDI (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance)
This is for employees whom the employer does not pay Social Security. The employer pays 1.5% of that salary as a contribution to TRS under Senate Bill 1458.Comal ISD eligible employees contribute to TRS and not Social Security.
Medicare Tax
The United States government imposes a Medicare tax of 2.9% on wages received by an employee. The Medicare hospital insurance tax is paid half by employees through payroll deductions and half by the employer. Accordingly, employees pay a Medicare tax rate of 1.45% (half of the 2.9% rate).
Workers’ Compensation
This is paid by the employer. Workers’ Compensation insurance is used to cover an employee’s medical expenses and lost income in the event that they are injured on the job.
