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School District 6 will pay its substitute teachers a little bit more than it did last year.

At last week’s meeting the board voted unanimously to raise rates for subs based on their education.

The district was paying subs $75 a day. Under a new schedule, subs with no degree will still get that rate if they work less than 20 days. Twenty-75 days they’d get $80 a day; more than 76 days they’d get $85.

If subs have a four-year degree they get $80 for 1 to 20 days; $85 a day for 21-75 days and more than 76 days they’d get $90.

A certified teacher would get $85 a day for less than 20 days; $90 a day for 21-75 days and $95 a day for 76 days or more.

Paraeducator substitutes will also see a pay boost to $9.50 an hour.

Based on the number of days substitutes worked last year, the total increase in cost will be about $18,072 to the district, superintendent Steve Bradshaw noted.

Even so, the hourly rate is very poor, boardmembers noted. Some fast food chains pay a higher hourly rate.