In Montgomery County Maryland, they make 100K plus after 20 years for sure. They start out around 45K but it is increased every year.
I’d say those teacher salary numbers are fake.
>>Journalists, who have vital job of protecting American democracy, earned 24 percent less.
How can anyone take a story seriously that says that?
When I was a pup, teachers got paid only for the 9-10 months they worked. Almost all of them had summer jobs which, in most cases, made them better teachers.
Some of them even started businesses. My 5th grade science teacher was one of the founders of Swanson`s Vitamins, a highly reputable and successful company.
To the headline - NO NO NO!!!!
“Teachers are underpaid.”
Absolute BS...
I’m married to one.
Not including extra’s, she makes north of $60 per hour with 20 years in.
In Chicago, 90K plus isn’t unusual, BEFORE BENNIES.
For 185 6.5 hour days.
More if you have a master’s, or a doctorate.
A while back I went on an Earthwatch expedition. You get to participate in a research expedition, as a paying member, in my case my share was a few grand, a little more for the right gear and of course some new lenses for the camera, and plane tickets.
Four members of the expedition were teachers on a grant- they paid nothing in return for giving a one-hour lecture when they got back to school. The grant included funding for camera equipment and airfare.
So while their salaries may have been lower than mine, I had to pay and they rode free, boosting their apparent salaries by three or four thousand.
http://earthwatch.org/ is a good outfit that can get you into some very interesting places, like on a riverboat in the Amazon looking for pink freshwater dolphins.
Working people, you don't perform your job well, you're fired.
Teachers, you don't perform your job well, so what.
YES. They are not underpaid. Teachers don’t have to compete with each other. Schools don’t have to compete for talent. Teachers can rarely be fired. This is a recipe for lousy unmotivated teachers. Are there good teachers? Certainly. But are the underpaid? Not at all. With their benefits and part time job they are paid a lot.
I teach middle school, and this guy has no idea what it's like to spend all day with attitudinal, hormonal 12-13 year olds, in batches of 28-39, depending on the class. I've done it for 10 years and I feel like Job.
That said, I'm earning about $61,000 (now, started much lower) and I certainly don't feel like I'm starving. Cost of living in Los Angeles is high, but I'm comfortable enough. I figure if you count only the hours I spend with the kids, I'm getting about $2.50 per hour, per kid.
I do think baby-sitters and day-care workers get more, nowadays, and I certainly work more than just 5 hours a day (planning, grading, meetings, fighting with copier machine, cleaning and decorating room and bulletin boards in the hallway)... but it's rather a fun job sometimes, so I don't complain much about the pay.
THAT SAID... if I got $3 per kid, per hour, I'd get about $74,250 just for the time with them. And if I got paid for the... say... 2 extra hours I work per day (one is my conference period, one after work) say I got... $7 per hour for that.... that'd be around another $2310 per year. I'd get around $76,560 per year.
Did I miss the part about being forced to be a teacher? If they don’t like the pay, go find some other way to be useful that pays better.
Here the average teacher makes $65,000 a year. After 12 years on the job they make $90,000. My retired cousin’s pension from teaching, coaching, driver’s ed, etc., is over $100,000 a year.