Nevada teachers don't pay into Social Security, either.
My mother was a teacher from the early 70's to the late 90's. With her pension, I calculated that her annual pay was about $65K/year.
There's another silver lining to an extreme economic downturn - once those in the private sector ponder how much longer we're gonna have to work in order to afford to live while the public sector looks forward to 100% pensions, free medical & dental and generally a care-free retirement.
One of my wife’s co-workers at the school she teaches at use to teach in LA. She said that there is a very high pay for substitute teachers because they were at high risk for being shot.
A couple of years ago, I participated in a pilot program for the LAUSD whereby 1,000 retired professionals would be prepared to teach in the system. I have been a professional business manager all of my working career and I must say that the LAUSD is the worst run organization I have ever seen. I quit because the whole experience was a total waste of my time. The headquarters building is 24 floors full of the laziest fat do-nothing stupid unemployables you could imagine. Over 95% of the students are illegal aliens and over 80% of those never graduate high school. The system is a total failure and most of the teachers are totally incompetent...what a friggin’ cesspool of wasted money!
that’s more than double what teachers make in rural southern Ohio.
It’s always the case that salaries in high-cost areas look good to low cost areas.
At the same time, I’m betting that a house in LA costs twice what it does in rural southern Ohio.
You can get a 3500 square foot house out here for 200 grand or less. And it’s quiet, no traffic jams, and violent crime is very low.
Pittsburgh and some suburban Pittsburgh area teachers have negotiated similar pay packages.
Before everyone goes off the deep about how overpaid teachers are, just remember the fat cats in D.C. are about to bail the idiots on Wall Street who ran their businesses into the ground & make more in a month than a teacher will ever see.
when I was in college many years ago - it was common knowledge that a job as a janitor for Los Angeles Unified School District was a great job for students and breadwinners as well...the shift began at 3pm and by the time the school principal left at 4pm you could have the entire school almost clean. The younger guys would then pull out books and study while the old-timers would take off for their real jobs elsewhere then return ~11pm to clock out...I have no reason to think anything has changed in the last 30 years