Suwanee, GA
see the full file on Gwinnett County Public Schools| Works around classes | Bus drivers work the student calendar: summers and all major school holidays off, most drivers done by 5pm, weekend work optional and never required, and a mid-day break of roughly 9:30am-1:30pm between the morning and afternoon runs. The district sells this explicitly as being off when your own children are off. |
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| Paid training | Bus drivers get 100% paid Commercial Driver's License training, valued at over $2,100, and are paid their full wage while training; classroom, range and road training happen on district ranges with district examiners. No repayment agreement is stated on the page. Custodians get paid one-on-one on-the-job training with no experience required. |
| No experience needed | Paraprofessional: a high school diploma or GED plus a pass in the GACE Paraprofessional Assessment is enough — an associate's degree or 60 college hours are the alternatives, not requirements. Custodians must hold a high school diploma or GED and no experience is required. |
| Pension | Bus drivers, food service workers, custodians and maintenance workers are members of the Public School Employees Retirement System (PSERS), a State of Georgia defined benefit plan administered by ERSGA. Employee contributions are $10.00 a month for members joining after 1 July 2012. Paraprofessionals instead go into Georgia TRS plus the Gwinnett Retirement System. |
| State pension | This job does NOT build Social Security. Gwinnett's school board withdrew from Social Security coverage on 1 January 1983 and the district's own defined benefit plan (GRS) replaces it. The district frames it as take-home pay — no 6.2% deduction — but it means no Social Security credit is earned from this job. |
| Hours a week to qualify | School nutrition (cafeteria) staff are hired through ESS, a K-12 staffing partner, not directly by the district: 4-5 hours a day each school day at $16.12/hour, with medical, dental, vision and 401(k) from ESS. Bus drivers work 6-8 hours a day and get district benefits; custodians are benefited employees. |
| Benefits while part-time | yes |
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