Break it down BY CONTRCT HOUR...
The wife makes just a tad over $70.
That’ll shut these people up pretty quick.
So do some of us already working full time jobs for a LOT less. And since we can’t call it quitters by 3:30 in the afternoon or so nor do we get summers and long holidays off, there is no way we can work second jobs and keep our day job.
Then leave school.
They got to live within their means.
Stop giving money to liberal causes.
Are the pension and health benefits considered in that figure or is it just the salary. My guess the latter. IOW, they are pulling down about 100K when non taxable earnings are considered. Not bad.
I don’t have a problem with teachers working a second job. My high school math teacher ran a detasseling crew during the summer.
I am all for this. It is industrious.
And yet, the minimum wage still isn’t $15/hr....even for 2000 hours a year (if a fry slinger could get that many hours with that new wage) that’s just $30,000.... how can they live on that? How can they find the time to advance themselves? How can they see a step increase without a corresponding decrease in hours? How can they even hope to get a full-boat (with medical) retirement?
Where is the EQUITY? Teachers working 9 months a year making $80,000 a year and the poor hash slingers we hope don’t spit in our burgers only getting something way less than $30K? No medical, no summer baycation, no professional enrichment, Where is the effing EQUITY?
I guess that’s why we probably don’t see teachers at the local fast food place during lunchtime.
My heart really bleeds for these teachers.
So maybe they should just stop watching TV?
How is it that $80,000 isn’t enough for working so few days?
Well, good for them. My high school biology teacher was inspired to start what is now a highly successful health products company by doing something similar.
FWIW, in those days ALMOST ALL teachers worked during the summer or after hours to supplement their nine months per year income. And, for the most part, we had better and more qualified teachers. The duds found other professions where they could work less and pay more.
Sadly, so did some of the superior ones like my high school biology teacher. But even he is serving society in a far better way now. And I'll bet his compensation reflects it.
$87,000 for 37 weeks work, or approx $109,000 for 50 weeks.
Shannon Williams had a “2nd job” and was arrested because of it.
http://archive.dailycal.org/article.php?id=12403
Unfortunately Shannon passed away from a brain tumor this year. She was 48 years old. She was arrested for prostitution in 2003. She lived in house in the Oakland hills area and she rented a studio apartment on the Oakland Rose Garden area with other women and they used it for prostitution.
Such nonsensical things like this is a major reason teachers don’t get any respect and/or sympathy anymore.
This kind of disingenuous whinning reminds me of the Sandra Fluke testimony where she complained of spending $3000.00/year on birth control.
Just looking at her it’s hard to believe any guy would touch her, much less have sex with her at all.
OH, BOO FREAKIN’ HOO...................$80k+............I live well on less than half that!...................
It’s the Obama economy, stupid.
well they have plenty of time for a second job given they only work 2/3 of a year.
Can’t make ends meet? Perhaps their ends are just too big.
I have a kid who’s a teacher. She does not make half of that. She manages to pay all of her bills.
Hell, 30 years back I was working appliance repair/refrigeration making 1/3 of that and lived like a king, wanting for nothing. The only thing more money would have meant would have been more dough in the bank. Better days, then. ;)