My estimate is $100 per degree.
“Next, the calculator shows expected salary levels — starting, middle and expert pay grades. A K-12 teacher in a non-science or math field could earn in a range of $12,840 on the low end to $64,200 on the high end, with the median salary of $42,800. That’s based on 2010 data of students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree and who worked full-time or part-time, according to GradSense.”
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The low end is less than a forty hour a week, year around job at the federal minimum wage. The median adjusted for REAL inflation is less than most 22 year olds with a high school education earned on a forty hour a week job in 1965. The high end figure is no more and probably less when adjusted for REAL inflation than what I was earning at age 23 with a high school diploma and a Navy electronics certificate. Recent studies have said that a recent bachelor in liberal arts is worth LESS in the job market than a public high school diploma was worth in the sixties. I think you are being generous.
I suspect that any 17 year old who wants to make a real effort could take a minimum wage job, live with his parents for a couple more years and go to tech school and be far better off. I used to really like George Burns but I would HATE to be 18 again in the current situation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3c-WBn5cCg