For School Districts · A New World

You used to dig for weeks.
Now you walk in already knowing.

For years, prepping a negotiation meant 80–120 hours of PDFs, FOIL requests, and a spreadsheet built from scratch. That world is ending. Every Long Island agreement is now structured — benchmark total cost against the full county, model any proposal, and track every settlement, all year. Walk into the board meeting, and the table, already knowing where you stand.

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Teacher salary · Step 10, MA+30 · across 57 Nassau County districts
Your Position
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75th percentile
County Median
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+3.1% YoY
Your Salary
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+$4,162 vs median
#DistrictSalaryvs PriorPosition
1Syosset CSDNassau$112,847+3.4%
2Roslyn UFSDNassau$111,936+3.5%
3Manhasset UFSDNassau$111,205+3.2%
4Great Neck UFSDNassau$110,680+3.1%
5Locust Valley CSDNassau$109,870+2.9%
⋮8 districts between ranks 6–13
14Jericho UFSD YOUNassau$108,442+3.25%
15Plainview–OB CSDNassau$108,110+2.8%
16Herricks UFSDNassau$107,635+2.7%
The old world

Eighty hours, twelve PDFs, and a best guess.

Every cycle, you pull contracts from neighboring districts, hand-key wage tables into a spreadsheet, and try to reconcile incompatible step structures. FOIL requests come back in three weeks — if they come back. The board asks how you compare, and the honest answer is "let me get back to you." By the time your comparables are built, three more districts have settled and moved the market.

You spent more hours than anyone on the budget — and still walked in less certain than the attorney across the table.
  • ⏱80–120 hours, every cycle. Pull PDFs, build spreadsheets, normalize incompatible step structures — then start over for the next bargaining unit.
  • ✉FOIL requests, then wait. Records come back in weeks, if they come back. The market moves while you wait.
  • ▫Six to ten comparables. About 8% of the market. You're missing the other 115 districts.
  • ✕"Let me get back to you." The board asks how you compare, and the answer is a best guess, not a number.
What changed

The contracts didn't change. Your access to them did.

Every collective bargaining agreement on Long Island is now structured — not a folder of PDFs, but a living, queryable record you can ask anything. The data was always public. For the first time, it's usable.

129
Long Island districts
735
Agreements structured
45 yrs
Of settlement history
Five shifts

What dies. What's born.

The job stops being research. It becomes strategy.

Old world
File a FOIL request, then wait weeks.
Every comparable meant a records request and a long wait. The market moved while you waited.
→
New world
Query 129 districts instantly.
Benchmark any title, step, or credential across every district in seconds — with the exact contract language and source behind every number.
CompBase Benchmark
Old world
A guess from six to ten districts.
You compared against the handful you could compile — about 8% of the market.
→
New world
Total cost vs the full county.
Compare total employer cost — base, health, longevity, FICA, TRS — against all 129 districts, not a hand-built spreadsheet of the few you could reach.
CompBase Benchmark
Old world
Prep is a six-month panic.
You start from zero before the table and scramble through to ratification.
→
New world
A posture you hold all year.
A district settles nearby; you know the GWI, the health share, and the step schedule by morning — and what it does to your comparables. The board's questions never catch you flat.
CompBase Pulse
Old world
Costed by hand, defended from memory.
Proposals priced in a spreadsheet, presented to the board on faith.
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New world
Every proposal pre-costed, all in.
Model any proposal's true cost — all five compensation types and the multi-year compounding — before the session ends. Brief the board with evidence, not a cobbled-together spreadsheet.
CompBase Model
Old world
The attorney frames "market rate."
You take the comparables you're handed, on faith.
→
New world
You set the fiscal parameters.
Grade any settlement against your board-approved parameters and show exactly where it lands across the county — before you sign.
CompBase Brief
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And the moment that feels like magic: the instant what-if.
Someone cites a comparable across the table. You verify it in ten seconds, not next week. A new proposal lands — you model its total employer cost, all in, before the meeting ends. No more "let me get back to you."
A year in the new world

Not a sprint before the table. A standing capability.

Prep used to be a season. Watch what it looks like when it's a posture you hold all year.

September
A neighboring district settles.
By the next morning you know the GWI, the health share, and the step schedule — and exactly what it does to your comparables.
November
"How does our starting salary compare?"
A board member emails. You answer in ten minutes across the county — not "let me look into it."
January
You open your workbook.
Every initiative is pre-costed across all five compensation types, ready to brief the superintendent.
March
A proposal lands across the table.
You model its true cost — all five compensation types, not just base — before the session ends.
May
Impasse looms.
You walk into fact-finding with 129 districts of structured comparable evidence. The party with the better comparables wins.
July
Deal done.
A scorecard grades the settlement against your fiscal parameters. You show the board precisely where it lands — and start next cycle already ahead.

The new world isn't a binder you build before the table. It's intelligence you carry into every board meeting, all year.

The shift, side by side

Two ways to walk into a negotiation.

The old world
Research, then defend.
⏱80–120 hours of PDFs and spreadsheets, every cycle
✉FOIL requests — three weeks of waiting, if they return
▫Six to ten comparables — about 8% of the market
✕The board's question, answered with "let me get back to you"
…The attorney's "market rate," taken on faith
The new world
Know, then govern.
⚡Benchmark total cost against the full county in seconds
☷Every Long Island agreement, structured and queryable
♻Settlement intelligence flowing to you all year long
☷All 129 districts — the full field, not a sample
✓Grade the deal against your own fiscal parameters
What this means for you

You're not assembling spreadsheets anymore. You're the official who walks into the board meeting already knowing.

No more "let me get back to you." In its place: a defensible market position, every proposal costed to the dollar, and the confidence to set your own fiscal parameters — and prove them to the board.

Walk into your next negotiation already knowing.

See your district's position, model any proposal's true cost, and brief your board with evidence from every district on Long Island.

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