A good friend of mine from college graduated two years ago.
She was hired at 36,000...fresh outta college and 23 years old.
This year she got an additional 5,000 for being the girls tennis coach (she's actually a tennis machine...hehe.)
She's using the extra money to get her stupid New VW Beetle...
it's a tough racket, being a 25 yr old single female teacher making 40,000...hehe.
She is now wanting to come back to graduate school for the school administrator program in a couple of years.
Her reasoning is that the admins make truely ridiculious money, and they have none of the hassles and stupidity the classroom teacher deals with.
Can't say as I blame her.
If she goes back for a couple of years in grad school, she can parking her butt in the admin building for 60-80,000 a year.....what a system!
classic!
Admin in our area start at 75 and top out at somewhere close to 110k....not bad for 185 days of work a year