My wife has been a HS teacher for 14 years and she has gone from a starting salary $16,000 to $32,000. On average she spends 2 - 3 hours working each night on lesson prep, grades, answering emails from her students.
Wow, the husband of a high paid teacher. May I interest you in one of these:
http://www.hsyacht.com/
or
http://www.netjets.com/Fleet/Gulfstream_450.asp
Escambia county is fairly affordable, but if you really want a raise, move to Clay or Duval county (good conservative counties). Starting pay for both is over $35k.
If you think that's not enough, you can move elsewhere so she can make a lot more money. A 30 year teacher with a masters degree retiring in my district is making over 130k with benefits, and then gets almost 50k a year pension plus medical.
BTW I know quite a few professionals (not hourly employees) who work at least 2000 hours a year, take work home, and are on call evenings and weekends and oftentimes holidays as well. So, the working evenings doesn't really break my heart. She still gets her summer off, every holiday and then some (like a week at easter), and has prep time during the day, right ? HS Teachers around here only teach 5 classes a day - the other 3 periods are prep.
One year I earned a 4 day vacation in Florida paid by my company because I was the person who had put in the most hours with clients - a bit over 2500 that year, to be exact. Wow - I got 4 days off for working over 500 extra hours one year. Never did that again.