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Chesterfield raises pay for bus drivers
Chesterfield County Schools will boost starting school bus driver pay from $17.21 to $20.21 an hour and increase the signing bonus from $1,000 to $3,000 in an effort to improve the county's school bus driver shortage.
Brittney Puryear, a Chester mother, thoroughly enjoyed her job of three years as a bus driver for Chesterfield County Public Schools. But in January 2021, when the U.S. was experiencing a COVID-19..
Chesterfield County Schools will boost starting school bus driver pay from $17.21 to $20.21 an hour and increase the signing bonus from $1,000 to $3,000.
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