Two months after salary negotiations stalled and hundreds of teachers threatened to strike if they didn’t get a raise, Salt Lake City School District struck a tentative agreement that would increase the annual pay for its starting educators to $46,845.
That bump — at 4.1% — is lower than what teachers had asked for, lower than the hikes at surrounding districts in the county and lower than what the Salt Lake district has approved in past years when it was among the highest paying in the state.
“I don’t know that either side is real happy with it," said James Tobler, president of the local teachers union.