Many boards today are asking their heads and directors to explore the challenging concept of merit pay. In the corporate and business context merit pay seems […]

Overview Littleford & Associates has worked with thousands of schools worldwide to help them design mission-based salary systems that are fair, equitable, market based and predictable.  […]

State schools, independent schools and international schools throughout the world are studying and undertaking dramatic changes in teacher salary systems and structures.  Even in public schools, […]

Years ago, school leaders began to explore the concept of a career ladder or a banding system as an alternative to individually negotiated salaries or lock […]

Over the past 30 years, as part of Littleford & Associates work with schools on salary system design, benefits and evaluation protocols, John Littleford has interviewed […]

“Best practice”, right? Not in the opinion of this Consultant who has seen firsthand the damage that these two practices can bring about for schools, heads […]

Most independent and international school have dated salary systems such as a public school, lock-step longevity base scale with options to move laterally with more graduate […]

All faculty salary systems, no matter how they are constructed originally, become corrupt over time. The signs of rigidity and inflexibility are obvious: “work arounds” that […]

No one should argue that teachers do not need and deserve salary increases because of both inflation and the demands of parents and school leadership during […]