Teachers Always Complaining They’re Under Paid; “Bull” Average Salary Including Benefits Are Well Over $100,000 (wage, high school)
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I'm near the top of the pay scale after 34 years. I'll make just under $56,000 with the new $1,000 pay raise. Our district opens in three weeks and we have around 300 vacancies, including 240 provisional licenses that the district has asked to be extended for the teachers who have not passed the Praxis. There will be yet another job fair this weekend. I joked yesterday that there will be med techs on hand to take pulses as the candidates enter, if there are any. The last few job fairs only had handfuls of people show up.
If you need a job, come to Mississippi. All we offer is low pay and poor working conditions, but if you have a pulse, we have a job for you. Oh, and by the way, we have year-to-year contracts with no tenure where teachers can be non-renewed with no reason given.
Last edited by lhpartridge; 07-13-2019 at 09:22 AM..
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I'm constantly perplexed by how much conservatives hate teachers.
If conservatives think teachers make so much, why not go teach?
I have several life long friends I knew from college who became teachers. I'm an engineer. I started out in the same pay grade as they were. It took me about 3 years to earn twice as much as they do. And I don't have to deal with annoying brats all day.
Also, when I'm done with my job, I can relax and do other things after my work hours. My teacher friends have to grade papers/homework and plan out their lessons late into the night.
2 of my friends ended up marrying each other. The guy wanted to surprise his wife with a trip to Hawaii. He managed to save up enough money by working extra hours and taking an extra job as a tutor. Took him all year to save up the money for that one trip. My husband and I travel 3 times a year.
So, yeah, I don't understand where all this conservative hate on teachers are coming from. It's not like they make bank while they sit around all day.
where I am from, teachers start at over $50k a year.
Where are you from? Different parts of the country have different levels of expenses. A person in silicon valley making $50K might as well be homeless.
Yea, those "180 days" are 12-16 hour days most times. And with pre and post year planning, it's really 190-195 days. But lets just use 180 to start with. 180 * 12 hours is 2160 hours or 270 days, more than the 251 days most workers work (261 weekdays per year minus 2 weeks of vacation). So teachers actually work MORE than the typical worker. Knowing several teachers, including my own mom, that article is full of it!
So are you. Teachers DO NOT work 12 to 16 hours a day. And yes, I know a few teachers here in Boston.
Where are you from? Different parts of the country have different levels of expenses. A person in silicon valley making $50K might as well be homeless.
the DC area. VA and MD. the areas you speak of where teachers make less than $30k a year might have landscapers who make $15k per year. it's all relative.
Teachers Always Complaining They’re Under Paid; “Bull” Average Salary Including Benefits Are Well Over $100,000
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Originally Posted by TheGoodTheBadTheUgly
You gotta be kidding me they make well over $100k including benefits and they’re underpaid. Not only that they only work 180 days a year and have a generous pension plan. And they’re complaining. Please!!!
Go get yourself a teaching certificate and get on that gravy train.
It's easy.
Anybody can do it, right? After all, everybody knows "Those who can, do. Those who can't teach."
And old sayings are always right on target. Because they're simple, require no thought and they're easy to spit out at moment's notice in any conversation.
Become one of America's overpaid underworked elites.
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