BAYONNE, N.J. – Teachers in the Bayonne school district have hit the jackpot in the most recent round of collective bargaining, with some receiving raises and payouts that nearly double their current salary.

The Bayonne Board of Education ratified a new retroactive five year contract with the local teachers union that stretches back to 2010, when salary step increases were frozen for district educators as school and union officials worked out a new pact, NJ.com reports.

The recently ratified deal will move most of the district’s educators up four or five steps on the union’s standardized salary schedule and award them retroactive payouts, although some teachers will receive much less than others.

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“On the lower salary end, teachers who have been frozen at Step 1, making $49,455 per year, will now move up to Step 5 and make $53,590 per year while also getting retroactive payouts of $5,484 each,” according to NJ.com.

That’s not bad, and would be considered a substantial pay raise in most school districts, but it’s a pittance compared to the boost doled out mid-career level educators under Bayonne’s new contract.

“At the peak of the raises, (12) teachers who have been frozen at Step 12, making $54,037 per year, will move to Step 16 and make $94,172 while also getting retroactive payouts totaling $66,785 each,” the news site reports.

Thirteen teachers on step 13 will rake in the biggest retro checks of $68,472, according to NJ.com.

Nearly 300 teachers frozen at step 15 and above, meanwhile, will move up five steps each with smaller retro payouts.

School leaders contend that union officials determined how to distribute the raises to the district’s teachers, but of course they didn’t want to talk to NJ.com about the massive pay discrepancy.

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“When contacted regarding why teachers who have been frozen at Step 12 are getting raises nearly 10 times as much as teachers how have been frozen at Step 1, Bayonne teachers union president Al D’Angelo did not immediately respond for comment,” NJ.com reports.

Partial data “released to The Jersey Journal” – the news agency didn’t specify who released the information – show “a conservative estimate of the total for retro paychecks comes out to at least $6,059,586, while the total in raises comes out to at least $4,770,253.”

“The ‘at least’ in those two figures is there because they exclude about 40 percent of the teachers, whose exact positions on the sliding scale of retro payouts and raises were not released,” NJ.com reports.

In other words, school officials have agreed to spend millions of tax dollars on raises and salary increases for the district’s teachers, but have not fully disclosed the total cost to those who will fund the new contract.

And there’s also no explanation for why some mid-career teachers will receive a massive windfall, while others at the top and bottom of the pay scale will receive much less, although those who posted to the news stories provided a very educated guess for the discrepancy.

“Doesn’t take a genius to figure this one out,” watchout4her posted to NJ.com. “The union leadership falls within the middle of the guide and they have very little interest in how the younger teachers fare under the new guides.”

Others predicted the huge payout will come back to bite the district’s taxpayers in more ways than one.

“Poster child for Hudson County abuse of taxpayers once again,” posted sprtskid. “Bayonne will model Detroit once all these teachers hit the pension windfall …”