Private School Teacher Salary

[Ariadne22]

Originally Posted by MzZactuary

I was told that my cousin who is a math teacher at a private school makes 80K a year in NYC. How is that possible?

NYC is very pricey. 80K is necessary to eat and pay rent on a very modest scale - doubt he's able to save much. Some very elite private schools in NYC - tuition about 40-50K/year. Tons of money in that city, home of the Wall Street financiers, real estate moguls (i.e., Trump), entertainment people, so 80K is totally believable. Anyone with money in NYC sends their kids to private school and has to undergo scrutiny and be approved - sort of like getting into a fraternity or sorority. These schools have waiting lists and parents put their kids on them when they are born. It's a very big, snooty deal there.

[Sar2705]

Public school teacher are required to have state certification, private school teachers are not. This makes a difference in pay as well. For the most part, private school teachers are paid less because the schools are run like a corporate business. In the public sector, teachers are demanded to be held accountable, often deal with much tougher children, and have enormously larger class sizes-so naturally, their pay should be higher.

[chet everett]

Originally Posted by Sar2705

....In the public sector, teachers are demanded to be held accountable, often deal with much tougher children, and have enormously larger class sizes-so naturally, their pay should be higher.

NONSENSE!

Public teacher unions donate an enormous amount of money to the political parties. Those parties in turn create legislation that regulates the overall benefits and working conditions of public employees of all kinds. Even in areas where a "local" school board is tasked with "negotiating" contracts the ultimate pay and work conditions are largely of function of the sum total of all other legislative fiats that control how schools are run. The quibbling then comes down to how quickly teachers reach "max compensation"...

I have worked in public and private schools, the work is essentially the same. The students are in large part the same. The class sizes are often LARGER in private schools.

The ONLY reason for the differential is the outsize influence of unions and their influence on politicians.