Do you get paid $42K/year plus benefits in which you pay copays and deductibles? Retirement bennies come out of that $42K salary. Insurance comes out of that $42K salary and went up steeply thanks to Obamacare. Do you teach at least ten out of 25 students, probably more, who have no copay and whose parents do not have any cost for insurance? I have teacher friends who make about $36K and some who make around $45K. Depending on what their husbands do, they may or may not take their own children to the doctor when they probably would if they were on Medicaid.
My husband works in IT. He has only worked one job that was paid what I would consider low for what he had to do. The benefits made up for the low pay. Well, except for the retirement which was taken out of his paltry salary. He worked for a state government at that time.
I get paid more than that, but I live in NJ (NY metro area), which is the 2nd most expensive area in the country to live, according to my employer (only SF employees have a higher pay scale). But I do contribute (significantly) to my health insurance, have copays and deductibles, all of which went up thanks to Obamacare. And while I get some matching for 401k contributions (50% on up to 4% of salary contributed), I am pretty much funding my own retirement.
Do you teach at least ten out of 25 students, probably more, who have no copay and whose parents do not have any cost for insurance?
No, I don't. What's your point, Vanessa?
I have teacher friends who make about $36K and some who make around $45K. Depending on what their husbands do, they may or may not take their own children to the doctor when they probably would if they were on Medicaid.
And this makes teachers unique in some way?