Compared to the School Bureaucrats, teachers salaries are very modest, IMHO.
I agree!! The question I have is, what do the school bureaucrats do they do? Maybe I’m a simpleton but, I don’t see the point of having even one. Are they teaching the kids? Do they pay all the school bills? What is it they do?
The teachers are actually very low. I have never had a beef with my kids teachers when they were in public school.
My kids were mostly blessed with wonderful Christian teachers.
I had a problem with bloated school administrators.
$30,000 in fringe benefits is not modest, however, and that is where all the money is going — pensions and health insurance that the teachers are barely contributing anything to. Compared to the private sector, $30,000 is very high for it to be an “average”. The bill in Wisconsin is only asking for the teachers to pay 12% of their health insurance costs and to contribute 50% of their pensions. That pension formula would still be equivalent to a private employer matching 100% of employee 401k contributions. Most employers match a max of 25% of the employees’ 401k contributions.
The salaries listed do not include the Fringe Bennies which are somewhere around $30,000 or more a year.
Also keep in mind that teachers do NOT work a Full Time job like us taxpayers in the private sector do. They do not work 8 hour days. They do not work 40 hour weeks. They do not work 12 months a year. That means that those salaries are appreciably HIGHER than the private sector...far higher than they appear at first glance.