Davis School District salary schedule: how teachers move to a higher column

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How is the Davis teacher salary schedule organized?

The 2026-27 Educator Salary Schedule, also called Table 1, covers a 185-day contract. It is a single list of Salary Levels lettered A through Z and then AA through AX. Each row shows the 185-day salary, the Educator Salary Adjustment, a Teacher and Student Success Act (TSSA) amount and the total. Both add-ons depend on continued legislative funding, and the adjustment also requires a satisfactory or higher performance rating under Utah Code 53F-2-405.

Education and experience share the one ladder. A new hire's starting letter comes from the degree and credits held at hire:

Experience then adds levels on top: new hires can receive credit for up to 10 years of qualified teaching outside the district and all of their teaching years in Davis. In years when an annual level is funded through negotiation, teachers hired before February 1 get it in the first check of the next fiscal year. Since July 1, 2023, BS+20 is no longer required to advance beyond Level L, and teachers once held at L now advance on service. To see how a single-ladder design differs from a grid, read our explainer on salary lane names.

Outside coursework, critical endorsements in ESL, Reading and Math earned with the initial degree add one level each at hire, and related servers (speech-language pathologists, psychologists, audiologists) can earn extra levels for a 53-credit master's or an education specialist degree.

Which units count toward a Davis column change?

Two kinds of credit are eligible, according to the Salary Level Change / Education Stipend Form: USBE credits and credits from a college or university with regional accreditation. The Educators' Agreement adds that a college must hold accreditation recognized by the Utah State Board of Education, that you must be a matriculated student, and that the transcript must show the term, course number and name, grade, credit units and a transcript key. The credit has to be academic credit that could satisfy a degree program.

Course level changes the test. Graduate-level credit does not have to relate to your present assignment. Undergraduate credit must relate directly to your assignment or lead to an added endorsement, and it goes in with a course description explaining the connection. Professional development counts only if USBE approved it, and anything awarded as Continuing Education Units is out.

The form lists what never qualifies:

• USBE hours and relicensure hours (as opposed to USBE credits);
• undergraduate credit unrelated to the current assignment;
• courses taken before your eligibility date, which is the award of your initial professional license, or your first day in a Davis licensed position if you were hired without one;
• professional development or continuing education USBE did not approve;
• the same course counted on two transcripts.

Courses completed inside a degree program are also ineligible, with one carve-out: a teacher credited for BS+40 or BS+50 before finishing a master's may later count master's courses that were not already used. Quarter credits convert at one and a half per semester credit, so the form lists BS+20 as 30 quarter credits, BS+50 as 75, and MS+60 as 90. See units that count for how other districts compare.

Does Davis require approval before you take a course?

Not for graduate-level coursework or USBE credit; review happens when you file. The exception is undergraduate credit, which the District Education Salary Level Committee may preapprove if you ask. The board appoints its six members, three licensed educators and three district representatives, and it also hears appeals; rejected credits come back with stated reasons.

Human Resources' how-to sheet gives the filing route: on the district website, open Human Resources, then Forms/Instructions, and choose Salary Level Change. Call Human Resources if you do not know your current level or how many credits you still need. In MIDAS, the PD Transcript lists USBE credit; count only credits earned after your professional license and after your last level change.

When are transcripts due, and when does the new column take effect?

Davis states its timing in Section 3.2.7[a] of the agreement, including a short grace period:

• Monthly deadline. A completed form must reach Human Resources on or before the 1st of the month. With full documentation, the raise normally appears in the following month's check.
• Grace period. If the coursework is finished but a transcript is not yet available, file anyway with a letter listing every missing document. You then have until the 15th of the following month to supply it, and the change is paid as if the paperwork had arrived with the form.
• Slow approvals. A complete form received by the 1st that takes longer to approve is retroactive to the 1st of the month after you submitted.
• Year-end cutoff. A request filed after the 1st of your last full month worked is paid starting the next contract year, not the current one.

For an example, take a teacher who finishes her twentieth post-license semester credit in early January. If the form and an official transcript reach Human Resources by February 1, the two added levels apply to earnings after that date and normally appear in the following month's check. If the transcript is still pending on February 1, she files with a letter naming it and gets it in by March 15 to keep the same effective date.

Documentation rules are strict. Photocopies and internet printouts are refused; electronic transcripts count only when sent straight from the institution or a clearinghouse. Transcripts for a new master's or doctorate also go to USBE, and the degree must post on USBE records before Davis processes the change. More on timing: transcript deadlines.

Do the same units count toward Utah license renewal?

Partly, and Davis is explicit about the split. USBE renews a Professional Educator License every five school years; it is valid through June 30 of its last year, and the renewal window opens January 1. Educators who have not worked in a Utah school throughout those five years document at least 100 renewal hours, at one hour per clock hour, under Rule R277-302. Davis refuses relicensure hours and USBE hours for a level change but takes USBE credits and accredited college credit, so choosing the credit option can serve both. See the Utah renewal section of our Utah state guide.

Where can Davis teachers earn graduate-level units?

Every district, Davis included, decides for itself whether a course counts for the purpose a teacher needs it for: a column move, a stipend, license renewal or an added endorsement. No provider, university or website can make that decision, so the rules above come first, and written approval from Davis's human resources office is the safest record to have before you pay.

Graduate-level credit providers, listed with the same facts

With those rules in hand, compare providers on the same points. Providers listed on this site, each with the same facts:

• Teacher Friendly: self-paced online, units through University of the Pacific; $336 first course for 3 credits (price notes)
• Credits for Educators: self-paced online, units through University of the Pacific; $297 for 3 credits (price notes)
• Dominican CA Online: self-paced, units through Dominican University of California; $477 for 3 credits (price notes)
• For Teachers By Teachers: self-paced, units through CSU Pueblo or UMass Global; $285 CSU Pueblo for 3 credits (price notes)
• Fresno Pacific University CE: self-paced, up to 1 year, units through Fresno Pacific University; ≈$475 for 3 credits (price notes)
• Graduate Credit Courses: self-paced, units through Cal Poly Humboldt; $570 for 3 credits (price notes)

The provider directory lists 28 providers and programs by what teachers need them for, and Compare sets published prices for 16 of them side by side, with transcripts from 11 universities. A listing on this site does not mean Davis has approved a provider or course; only the district can do that. TeacherPayGuide has commercial relationships with some providers it lists; how listings work.

Sources

1. Educator Salary Schedule, School Year 2026-27 (Table 1), Davis School District, linked from the district's salary tables page. Checked November 11, 2026
2. 8DA, Davis Educators' Agreement 2026-2027, Davis School District, revised July 1, 2026. Checked November 11, 2026
3. Salary Level Change / Education Stipend Form, Davis School District Human Resources. Checked November 11, 2026
4. How to Get a Salary Level Change, Davis School District Human Resources. Checked November 11, 2026
5. Renew an Educator License, Utah State Board of Education. Checked November 11, 2026

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