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Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, § 13402: Minimum salaries, 1981

Substitute teachers must be paid at least $30 per day, and qualifying professional training can trigger a minimum $100 payment from the school administrative unit.

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Minimum salaries

Substitute teachers must be paid at least $30 per day, and qualifying professional training can trigger a minimum $100 payment from the school administrative unit.

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Source record from legislature.maine.gov · Enacted 1981 · Source version 1 Oct 2025

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§ 13402Minimum salariesSubstitution

Substitute teachers must be paid at least $30 per day, and qualifying professional training can trigger a minimum $100 payment from the school administrative unit.

1. Minimum salary schedule. [PL 1985, c. 505, §2 (RP).] 2. Increase. [PL 2005, c. 635, §3 (RP).] 3. Substitute teachers. Substitute teachers must be compensated at the rate of not less than $30 for each day of service. Any substitute teacher under contract with the Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf is deemed for the purposes of civil liability to be an employee of a governmental entity under the Maine Tort Claims Act. [PL 2005, c. 279, §12 (AMD).] 4. Annuity contract premiums. Money paid by a school administrative unit as a premium for an annuity contract for the benefit of an employee shall, for purposes of minimum salaries for teachers, be considered part of that employee's salary. [PL 1981, c. 693, §§5, 8 (NEW).] 5. Reimbursement for additional professional training. When a certified teacher completes, within any 2-year period, 6 credit hours of additional professional work approved by the superintendent, the school administrative unit shall pay that teacher not less than $100. [PL 1981, c. 693, §§5, 8 (NEW).] 6. Permits or special licenses. If the employment of teachers under permit or other special license is authorized by the commissioner, the commissioner may prescribe minimum salaries and other rules for this class of teachers. [PL 1981, c. 693, §§5, 8 (NEW).]
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