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Payroll changes for the 2025-26 school year

(01/03/25) Beginning July 1, 2025, Anoka-Hennepin Schools will be making changes to some payroll practices that will impact how many employees will be compensated and need to record their work time. The changes are aligned with fiscal best practices and the payroll practices of most other school districts and employers.  They are intended to streamline our payroll operations and ensure greater accuracy and efficiency in processing payments.  

What are the changes?

  1. All hourly employees will be required to record their hours beginning July 1, 2025, and will be paid on a 2 week delay based on their hours reported.  
  2. Salaried employees will not be required to report hours worked, but will also begin to be paid on a 2 week delay.
  3. Pay schedules for teaching assignments will not be changing.  
  4. The District will be offering a buyback of up to 10 accrued sick or vacation days to all full-year non-bargaining unit employees moving to delayed pay, and is working with our Unions to extend the same buyback provision to our full-year bargaining unit employees. 

What does this mean for your pay?

  • Teachers will not see a change in pay schedule for their regular assignment.  However, additional pay amounts that are written into the working agreement (miscellaneous hourly pay, extension days, ESAs, etc) will now be paid on a 2 week delay. 
  • Hourly employees who are paid on a three week delay based on hours reported will move to a 2 week delay, resulting in three weeks payable on the July 11, 2025 paycheck.
  • Hourly school-year employees who have their pay averaged over 22 pay periods during the school year will see their first payment 2 weeks later than in the past and the value of paychecks will vary based on the number of days worked in each pay period.  
  • Part-year salaried employees, other than teachers, will continue to receive consistent paychecks, but the first paycheck will not be provided until the pay period following the beginning of the assignment each year.  For some this is not a change, for others, the first check may be provided one pay period later.
  • Full-year hourly and salaried employees will not receive a regular paycheck on July 11, 2025, but will have the option to be paid out for up to 10 days of accrued vacation or sick leave at their regular daily/hourly rate.

What are the next steps?

The school district has communicated this information with union leadership of impacted groups to ensure their awareness before sharing with all district staff. This notice to district staff is intended to provide general awareness of the payroll change so that employees can begin to prepare for the change.  The District is still in the process of finalizing details and logistics and will provide more information to staff when it is available. 

Questions regarding payroll changes should be submitted via e-mail to 2025PayChanges@ahschools.us. The District will use the e-mail submissions to generate a FAQ document to be shared with all staff.