Merit pay and pay for performance are often used interchangeably. Although they are similar in some ways, they are not the same. Merit pay is a type of pay for performance incentive.

More than 4,200 Arkansas teachers will receive bonuses of up to $10,000 this year through the state’s LEARNS Merit Teacher ...

More than 4,200 Arkansas teachers will receive up to $10,000 in performance-based pay for the 2024-25 school year through the ...

Only a few weeks after the governor's office announced merit raises in the executive branch, the state announced that thousands of teachers will get performance-based bonuses, too.

Over 42,000 Texas teachers will receive merit pay in the 2024-25 school year, with $481 million allocated to increase teacher ...

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the Arkansas Department of Education announced Tuesday that more than 4,200 teachers will ...

Governor Sanders announced today that over 4,200 educators in Arkansas will receive up to $10,000 bonuses through the LEARNS ...

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the Arkansas Department of Education have announced that more than 4,200 outstanding ...

Lawmakers React To Merit Incentive Pay Proposal One item on the agenda has garnered questions from both sides of the aisle. Wednesday, February 1st 2023, 10:23 pm ...

A merit increase is a pay boost based on exceptional work. However, a pay raise, which is typically an increase in base salary, isn’t always related to an employee’s performance.

Several years earlier, in 2010, the Mississippi Department of Education won a federal grant of $10.9 million to launch a five-year Teacher Incentive Fund program in 10 schools including one in ...