[KarlInOhio]

I've heard (but don't have any citations, sorry) that PE teachers tend to latch onto a job and stay forever, thus building up lots of seniority. Math and science teachers more often jump between schools or just leave teaching and go into actual math or science which lowers their average seniority.

[Boonie]

As a former high school and college football coach, I can assure you that the extra income from coaching supplements is well earned....High school coaches not only spend the time coaching, but field maintainance, locker room prep, equioment maintainance etc takes a huge amount of time and effort.

[allmendream]

In Michigan, apparently...

Football > Math and Science.

We need a school the football team can be proud of!

[Secret Agent Man]

That and the perverts get an up close look at the fresh meat parading by naked. You know the women coaches....

[napscoordinator]

Not many Math and Science teachers see student making 20 million a year like some Physical Education Teachers do. If you want to use getting paid by how successful the students do then you have to accept that some teachers will be paid more than others because the student is more successful.

[muir_redwoods]

PE teachers typically take extra gigs as coaches, asst coaches and even Drivers Ed teachers.

[BobL]

“In the Wayne-Westland Community Schools, high school math teachers are the lowest paid as a group and make on average almost $25,000 less a year than the physical education teachers.”

It sounds like the math teachers are getting paid based on their capability...so what’s the problem?

[Cyclone59]

The high school science teachers make $11,000 less than the district’s gym teachers on average. The salaries are set by a six-year teacher’s contract Wayne-Westland agreed to in 2008 and runs through 2014. The salary schedule determines pay solely by years of experience and education background. On average, physical education teachers were the highest paid group and made $78,675 a year. Teacher gross salaries can also include pay for extracurricular activities, such as coaching a sports team or teaching a class during their break. High school science teachers made $67,564 and high school math teachers made $53,775.

This is such scare tatic BS. Public school teachers are on salary schedules. The PE teachers have been in their jobs longer than the science teachers. As a new teacher I hate this - mainly because I have over 20 years of accounting and marketing experience, I get paid 20k less than the teacher that has been there "teaching" while I was out there doing. Yes, it's not really fair, but those are the rules you play by when you choose to teach as a second career. One day those teachers will retire and will be replace with new college graduates that will get a salary of about 40k per year WITH A MASTERS DEGREE. But will teach right out of the textbook.