<prompt> Human: This is a bit of a strange one, and seems so blatantly wrong to me I figure I have to be missing something.My SO started a new position as a TA at a charter school, starting salary of 22.5kyr yay NC .. The school pays once monthly, so that should be 1875mo gross. However, on her pay stubs her gross pay is listed as 1292, which only comes out to 15.5kyr.She went to talk about this, and the finance guy for the school pulled out this chart with the number of school days per month and broke it down like this:Salary 22,500yr195 school daysyrDaily rate Salary195 115.38Further, he says that since she came in late in the school year and there arewere only 56 school days remaining, her paycheck for the rest of the year including summer break since she gets paid through that is based on Daily Rate 56, so a total of 6,461.54. This is then divided by 5 to get the monthly gross pay until July 1292.This seems incredibly wrong, and Ive never heard of an annual salary working like that. Is this really a thing? More over a legal thing? I cant believe it would be acceptable to offer a salary and then, for lack of a better term, prorate it for the rest of the school year.  <response>: Teacher pay is different than what you may normally expect. Pay is usually very stated and depends on position, years already worked, degree level, etc. Generally speaking 2 people with the exact same qualifications and experience in the same district doing the same thing will make the same money. Unlike the private world where one of those people could have negotiated a better raise or something.And yes, their salaries are prorated when hired mid-year. They will calculate how many days of work are left and use a daily rate per day for the current years pay. The thing about a full year being less than the stated salary does seem off though. She should get all 22.5 as gross for a full year of work. Could be the gross you are seeing on these pay stubs is reflective of the prorated year she has or something like that. -Edit, missed the part where you said he divided by 5. So yeah, thats whats going on. You are seeing the gross based on the prorated salary. 