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Using 2022-2023 WCPSS salary schedules (including a 4.5% pay raise) and municipal median rent estimates, the survey projects housing cost burdens as the share of gross income needed for rent across years of experience and job roles. 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Across the country, the average home price increased by $154,000 from 2016 to 2021, and about 20 percent of zip codes saw increases of more than $200,000 . A Wake County resident would have to earn $24 an hour to afford a one-bedroom apartment and avoid spending no more than 30% of their income on rent according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.  \nRising housing costs are especially challenging for K-12 public school teachers. In the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), as well as other large school districts, housing costs have outstripped teacher pay according to analyses by the National Council on Teaching Quality (NCTQ) . In 2017-2018, the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in the Raleigh metropolitan area was 23% of the $41,038 starting salary for new teachers without a master’s degree. In 2022-  \n2023, that percentage increased to 29% of the $43,690 starting salary for these teachers.  \nTeachers are just some of the educators faced with rising housing costs. The heatmap in Table 1 presents the housing cost burden for teachers as well as instructional assistants, bus drivers, and Child and Nutrition Services (CNS) assistants in WCPSS. The first column lists the municipality, while the first row is Wake County overall. The second column reports median rent and subsequent columns denote the approximate share of gross income that an employee would spend on rent given their years of experience. Darker red shading represents an increasing housing cost burden above 30% of gross income, which is a widely used indicator of affordable housing. For example, a WCPSS teacher living in Holly Springs with 0 years of experience – a newly minted beginning teacher – would face a housing cost burden of 39.14% ..  \nTable 1  \nEstimated Housing Cost Burdens using 2022-2023 WCPSS Salaries and Median Rents  \nBus Driver/Instructional  \nMedian Rent  \n0 years exp.  \nTeacher 5 years exp.  \n10 years exp.  \n0 years exp.  \nAssistant 5 years exp.  \n10 years exp.  \nCNS Assistant  \n0 years exp.  \n5 years exp.  \n10 years exp.  \nWake County (overall) Holly Springs Morrisville  \nApex  \nCary Fuquay-Varina Garner  \nWake Forest  \nRaleigh Knightdale Wendell  \nRolesville  \nZebulon  \n1204  \n1489  \n1459  \n1415  \n1312  \n1279  \n1218  \n1190  \n1175  \n1159  \n971  \n826  \n794  \n31.65% 28.08% 25. 14% 46.37% 43.23% 40.49% 49. 10% 45.54% 42.46%  \n\n| 39.14% | 34.72% | 31.09% | 57.35% | 53.47% | 50.07% | 60.72% | 56.32% | 52.51% |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 38.35% | 34.02% | 30.47% | 56.20% | 52.39% | 49.07% | 59.50% | 55.18% | 51.46% |\n| 37.19% | 33.00% | 29.55% | 54.50% | 50.81% | 47.59% | 57.70% | 53.52% | 49.90% |\n| 34.48% | 30.59% | 27.40% | 50.53% | 47.11% | 44.12% | 53.50% | 49.62% | 46.27% |\n| 33.62% | 29.82% | 26.71% | 49.26% | 45.93% | 43.01% | 52.16% | 48.38% | 45.11% |\n| 32.01% | 28.40% | 25.43% | 46.91% | 43.74% | 40.96% | 49.67% | 46.07% | 42.96% |\n| 31.28% | 27.75% | 24.85% | 45.84% | 42.73% | 40.02% | 48.53% | 45.01% | 41.97% |\n| 30.88% | 27.40% | 24.54% | 45.26% | 42.19% | 39.51% | 47.91% | 44.44% | 41.44% |\n| 30.46% | 27.03% | 24.20% | 44.64% | 41.62% | 38.98% | 47.26% | 43.84% | 40.88% |\n| 25.52% | 22.64% | 20.28% | 37.40% | 34.87% | 32.65% | 39.60% | 36.73% | 34.25% |\n| 21.71% | 19.26% | 17.25% | 31.82% | 29.66% | 27.78% | 33.68% | 31.24% | 29.13% |\n| 20.87% | 18.52% | 16.58% | 30.58% | 28.51% | 26.70% | 32.38% | 30.03% | 28.00% |\n\nNote. These projections include a 4.5% raise for teachers and classified staff. The data in these tables come from two sources. The wage data come from the 2022-2023 WCPSS Salary Schedules, with wages increased by 4.5% for all positions and experience levels shown to account for expected pay raises. The median rent estimates come from 2022 municipal housing one-pag","cbCaibHz26fyfmd0","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibHz26fyfmd0","pdf",1127680,"English","# Introduction\n## Housing cost pressure on K-12 educators\n## Housing cost burden heatmap and Table 1\n## Key takeaways from projected unaffordability","[{\"question\":\"How is “housing cost burden” defined in the survey analysis?\",\"answer\":\"Housing cost burden is the approximate share of gross income an employee would spend on rent, given their years of experience. 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