Excellence
Attendance Pay
Mesquite ISD Administration firmly believes that our organization operates at its best when 100% of our employees are present and engaged to serve our students. To support this priority, district leadership developed an attendance incentive plan, offering all full-time MISD employees the opportunity to earn up to $1,000 in Attendance Pay during the 2023-24 school year.
How Attendance Pay Works
- Only full-time Mesquite ISD employees are eligible to receive Attendance Pay.
- Eligible employees may earn $250 per attendance period (four times per year).
- An employee's absence count resets at the beginning of each attendance period; therefore, employees may qualify to earn the incentive in some periods and not others.
- Employees must have zero absences per period to earn Attendance Pay. (See allowable absence exceptions on this page.)
- Half-day absences, FMLA leave, worker's compensation leave and intermittent leave are not considered allowable absence exceptions for Attendance Pay.
- New employees become eligible for Attendance Pay the first full attendance period they are employed by MISD.
Attendance Periods & Payment Dates
| CAMPUS STAFF (NON-226) |
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| Attendance Period #1: First contract day or scheduled work day of the 2023-24 fiscal year — Oct. 6, 2023 (paid Nov. 17) |
| Attendance Period #2: Oct. 16 — Dec. 21, 2023 (paid Jan. 26) |
| Attendance Period #3: Jan. 8 — March 8, 2024 (paid April 26) |
| Attendance Period #4: March 18 — May 24, 2024 (paid July 25) |
| ALL OTHER STAFF |
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| Attendance Period #1: First contract day or scheduled work day of the 2023-24 fiscal year — Sept. 29, 2023 (paid Nov. 17) |
| Attendance Period #2: Oct. 2 — Dec. 29, 2023 (paid Jan. 26) |
| Attendance Period #3: Jan. 2 — March 28, 2024 (paid April 26) |
| Attendance Period #4: April 1 — June 28, 2024 (paid July 25) |
Questions about Attendance Pay?
Contact Dr. Andrea Hensley at
Allowable Absence Exceptions
The following absence types will not count against an employee's eligibility for Attendance Pay:
- Jury duty
- Subpoena to appear in court
- Religious holidays
- Approved professional learning
- Approved school business
- Vacation days
- Unused Gold Days rolled over from 2022-23
- Use of compensatory time
- Death of an immediate family member. For purposes other than FMLA, the Employee Handbook defines immediate family as:
- Spouse
- Son or daughter, including a biological, adopted, or foster child, a son- or daughter-in-law, a stepchild, a legal ward, or a child for whom the employee stands in loco parentis
- Parent, stepparent, parent-in-law, or other individual who stands in loco parentis to the employee
- Sibling, stepsibling, and sibling-in-law
- Grandparent and grandchild
- Any person residing in the employee’s household at the time of illness or death