NC Education Code · Regulation
Title 16 — root / Chapter 06 — 16 NCAC 06C .0365
Plain English summary
This rule establishes criteria under which NC educators may receive salary or licensure credit for non-teaching work experience that is relevant and directly related to their current work assignment and license area. Eligible experience must be paid, at least half-time (20+ hours/week), completed after age 18, and free of on-the-job training. Credit accrues at a 2:1 ratio for pre-bachelor experience and 1:1 for post-bachelor experience, and is not transferable to unrelated licensure areas.
Key requirements
- An educator may receive credit for non-teaching work experience when it is determined to be relevant and directly related to the educator's work assignment and license held.
- work experience earned while self-employed if it is verified by a tax attorney or an accountant who prepared the educator's tax returns or by a company co-owner
- full-time non-teaching work experience of less than six calendar months in one fiscal year if when combined with another fiscal year of part-time or full-time non-teaching work experience equals at least one year of experience credit
- Credit for non-teaching work experience is not transferable to other licensure areas for which the experience is not relevant.
- was at least half-time, which is defined as 20 hours or more per week or full time, which is defined as 40 hours or more per week
- was completed after age 18
- did not include on-the-job training
- was paid and documented
- An educator may receive credit for one year of work experience for every two years of full-time relevant work experience completed prior to earning a bachelor's degree or may receive credit for one year of experience for each year of full-time relevant non-teaching work experience completed after earning a bachelor's degree.
Affected parties
- NC licensed educators
- self-employed educators seeking experience credit
- school districts administering educator compensation
- NC Department of Public Instruction
- tax attorneys and accountants verifying self-employment