Danville Public Schools is weighing the option of switching payday for the majority of its employees, a move spurred by a snafu earlier this year with federal tax withholdings.

Right now, nearly 1,000 employees of the school system receive their base pay once a month. Workers like school bus drivers and those serving in cafeterias are paid weekly, a schedule that won’t change.

When teachers work extra duty — such as for Saturday school — they receive what’s known as miscellaneous pay. That comes in a separate paycheck, generally in the middle of the month.

The system discovered the miscellaneous pay wasn’t being taxed at a rate set by the Internal Revenue Service. This came to light around the same time as employees learned tax withholdings didn’t come out of their paycheck last year

See Full Page