AAEAP Paraeducators of AAPS

AAEAP Paraeducators of AAPS Crisis Action Team for AAEA-P.

We are the Teaching Assistants, Community Assistants, Preschool Paraeducators, Afterschool Childcare Staff, and many other paraeducators that care for and support Ann Arbor students.

07/29/2026

Signal Boost AAEA-Office Professionals: Maya Fields Jacobs’ speech at the Solidarity Rally. AAEA-OP are our Education Support Professional counterparts who join us as the lowest paid employees in the district. Maya’s speech is fire - please give it a listen. They don’t have an online account but deserve more attention.

Thank you again to Ann Arbor Education Association Crisis Team-AAEA Crisis, Afscme Dave, Huron Valley Area Labor Federation/AFL-CIO, Graduate Employees' Organization 3550, LEO: Lecturers' Employee Organization TWU 171 and Yousef Rabhi for the camaraderie.

07/28/2026

AAEA-P Speech at Solidarity Rally

Union workers are the bedrock supporting every single aspect of Ann Arbor - the city literally could not function without our collective labor.

We joyfully joined our union siblings speaking at City Hall at the HVLAF’s Solidarity Rally.

This is a difficult moment for AAEA-P and our fellow unions as so many of us lack the pay, safety, and respect we deserve.
Despite these conditions, we work tirelessly in good faith caring for Ann Arbor individuals and families. We do our jobs because we love what we do, not to earn millions. Our members deserve to be able to feed their own families and pay their bills without working three jobs.

This is a moment of opportunity, strength and power. This rally united those of us actively negotiating new contracts.* Our combined determination and conviction have us stronger than ever.

We are in honored to be in this fight together with Ann Arbor Education Association, AAEA-Office Professionals, Transport Workers Union TWU Local 171 (AATA TheRide), Graduate Employees' Organization 3550(U of M), Afscme Dave and AFSCME 369 (Municipal Services behind all Ann Arbor infrastructure).

We’re grateful to Yousef Rabhi for emceeing, Huron Valley Area Labor Federation/AFL-CIO for hosting, and for LEO: Lecturers' Employee Organization, AFGE, SEIU, and every person who showed up for worker’s rights!

*Everyone but AAEA-P is working without a contract. The only reason AAEA-P filed for an extension of our contract was to be able to file grievances combating AAPS actively subcontracting out AAEA-P jobs. We are still without pay raises and actively negotiating with the district. The majority of our unit still earns at or below $24,000 annually.

Union workers are the bedrock supporting every single aspect of Ann Arbor - the city literally could not function withou...
07/28/2026

Union workers are the bedrock supporting every single aspect of Ann Arbor - the city literally could not function without our collective labor.

We joyfully joined our union siblings speaking at City Hall at the HVLAF’s Solidarity Rally.

This is a difficult moment for AAEA-P and our fellow unions as so many of us lack the pay, safety, and respect we deserve.

Despite these conditions, we work tirelessly in good faith caring for Ann Arbor individuals and families. We do our jobs because we love what we do, not to earn millions. Our members deserve to be able to feed their own families and pay their bills without working three jobs.

This is a moment of opportunity, strength and power. This rally united those of us actively negotiating new contracts.* Our combined determination and conviction have us stronger than ever.

We are in honored to be in this fight together with Ann Arbor Education Association Crisis Team-AAEA Crisis, AAEA-Office Professionals, Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 171 (AATA TheRide), Graduate Employees' Organization 3550 (U of M), Afscme Dave and AFSCME 369 (Municipal Services behind all Ann Arbor infrastructure).

We’re grateful to Yousef Rabhi for emceeing, Huron Valley Area Labor Federation/AFL-CIO for hosting, and for LEO: Lecturers' Employee Organization, AFGE, SEIU, and every person who showed up for worker’s rights!

*Everyone but AAEA-P is working without a contract. The only reason AAEA-P filed for an extension of our contract was to be able to file grievances combating AAPS actively subcontracting out AAEA-P jobs. We are still without pay raises and actively negotiating with the district. The majority of our unit still earns at or below $24,000 annually.

04/22/2026

Someone asked on the teacher's Ann Arbor Education Association Crisis Team-AAEA Crisis page about Paraeducator pay through the years. Sharing the reply here:

Hello!

Thanks so much for asking! We just changed leadership this summer and don’t have prior years’ salaries handy. Here’s what we can share based on looking at contracts and knowing the names on the expired MOA that shifted pay groups for our TA’s working in self-contained and with 1:1 students.

Based on October 2024 data, our average salary for our 287 full-time AAEA-P is $26,386. The vast majority of teaching assistants and preschool paraeducators fall in our lowest pay group. These 209 individuals average a salary of $24,654.

From February 2019 to Feb 2023, the starting wage stayed the same. Salary only increased for folks with 5 years and more.

We haven’t dug into it thoroughly and somehow we got the other two furloughed days back on our calendar.

Here’s what we am certain of:
2015-16
4 Furlough Days. Wage Freeze. Step Freeze. 1 time 1% off-schedule "bonus"
2016-17
1% increase. "Full Step Advancement applied to half of the year"
2017-18
1.68% increase. Elimination of 2 furlough days.
Starting pay G3: $14.29, G2: $15.37, G1: $17.56
2018-19
1.5% on schedule increase to Step 5 only. Later (Feb 2019) 0.5% increase to all steps
Starting pay G3: $14.36, G2: $15.45, G1: $17.65
2019-20
Wage freeze. Step freeze. 1 time off-schedule bonus of $484
Starting pay G3: $14.36, G2: $15.45, G1: $17.65
2020-21
1/2 step advancement. 2% added to Steps 5, L1, L2
Starting pay G3: $14.36, G2: $15.45, G1: $17.65
2021-22
1/2 step advancement. 2% added to Steps 5, L1, L2
Starting pay G3: $14.36, G2: $15.45, G1: $17.65
Self-contained TA’s given $1500 lump sum (Dec 2021)
2022-23
1 step advancement. New values. 14.90% increase to Group 3. 10.35% increase to Groups 1 & 2.
Starting pay G3: $16.50, G2: $17.05, G1: $19.25
Self-contained TA’s given $1500 lump sum again (Nov 2022)
2023-24
1 Step advancement. 2% to whole table.
Starting pay G3: $16.83, G2: $17.39, G1: $19.64
Nov. 2023 the district created an MOA bumping TA’s in self-contained classrooms as well as TA’s who are 1:1’s from our lowest pay group into our highest. From 16.83 to 19.64 an hour through March 2024.
Spring: District let MOA expire and TA’s reverted back to the lowest pay group, an approximately $5,000 pay decrease. This affected approximately 1/3 of our full time AAEA-P members. Because the change happened after the initial expiration date, the difference in wages for remaining months was taken retroactively from paychecks leaving many starting summer with a paycheck of around $100. When they did so, TA’s in self-contained and 1:1 positions dropped back to the lower level of pay, and subsequently most left the district.
2024-25
1 step advancement. 1.5% to salary table. Additional 0.5% added to each longevity.
Starting pay G3: $17.08, G2: $17.65, G1: $19.93
2025-26
October: We start the year short 47 teaching assistant positions.
March: We are short 44 teaching assistant positions.

02/24/2026

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