GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
S 1
SENATE BILL 434
Short Title: School Workers Fair Pay Act. (Public)
Sponsors: Senators Grafstein, Bradley, and Everitt (Primary Sponsors).
Referred to: Rules and Operations of the Senate
March 25, 2025
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO REQUIRE TH E HOURLY RATE OF THE MINIMUM SALARY FOR 2
NONCERTIFIED PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES TO BE AT LEAST SEVENTEE N 3
DOLLARS PER HOUR. 4
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 5
SECTION 1.(a) The hourly rate of the minimum salary for all noncertified public 6
school employees shall be at least seventeen dollars ($17.00) per hour. The State Board of 7
Education shall increase the minimum of all salary grades and ranges it maintains for noncertified 8
public school employees, as necessary, to achieve a minimum hourly rate of at least seventeen 9
dollars ($17.00) per hour. 10
SECTION 1.(b) Funds provided to local school administrative units pursuant to this 11
act may be used to supplement the salaries of noncertified public school employees whose 12
salaries are supported from non-State funds to meet the minimum hourly rate of at least seventeen 13
dollars ($17.00) per hour required by subsection (a) of this section. These funds shall not be used 14
to supplant State or non-State funds already provided for salaries of noncertified public school 15
employees. 16
SECTION 2. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of 17
Public Instruction the sum of one hundred forty-four million seven hundred thousand dollars 18
($144,700,000) in recurring funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to implement the provisions of 19
this act. 20
SECTION 3. This act becomes effective July 1, 2025. 21