Posted on 02/22/2011 9:27:35 AM PST by Nachum
The battle between the governor and teacher unions in Wisconsin is revealing the teacher and administrators in the government schools to be quite well compensated. The average full-time teacher gets salary and benefits worth about $90,000 while many principles and district administrators are paid salary and benefits worth between $160,000 to $200,000 annually.
According to www.teacher-world.com, the average annual teacher salary in Kenosha is $68,400 while that of Green Bay is $55.110. The average salaries in other parts of the state are comparable. When you consider the benefits above those salaries is approximately $35,000 or more per teacher, you can see it costs the taxpayers a total of about $90,000 on average to employ each government school teacher.
Data posted at http://dpi.state.wi.us/lbstat/newasr.html shows many administrators are paid well over $100,000 to as much as $164,000 annual salary plus benefits package worth about $50,000 each.
The median income in the United States current is about $52,000 annually.
Hmm. Seems like they could afford to pay for some of their health care....like the REST of us.
These people still think it’s 1968.
Two-Thirds of WI Pub.-School 8th Graders Can’t Read Proficiently—despite the fact that Wisconsin spends more per pupil in its public schools than any other state in the Midwest.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2677944/posts
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“These people still think it’s 1968.”
I think more of just brainwashed by their socialist union thug leaders. As Educators, if they did their due dilligence/home work and reviewed what they earn and objectively compare it to what free market wage earners make, they would understand the lesson...(at least you would think)
I thought the Rats mantra was ‘tax the rich’?
When all of Walker’s proposals are enavted, including that the teachers will have to write the checks themselves to the union ( no more dues check-off) I think that within 3 years, you’ll see membership drop by more than 50%..
What you want is parity first, then cuts. That will require Congress exempting all medical insurance payments from taxation.
Once you get that done, then you'll know what comparable salaries are. Then you cut the teachers. Also, the state of Wisconsin needs someone on the job who can negotiate with the medical insurance operators to get them a better rate. They are paying a group rate of $23,000 per employee per year ~ even ordinary individual policies don't cost that much!
They simply want the power to bring Wisconsin taxpayers to their knees.
Wow. Looks like I made a mistake taking EE. Could have slept through college and been a teacher.
Sounds like people are jealous that they didn’t become teachers. Those people must have found ‘greener’ pastures after college.
Looks like those who sacrificed pay for benefits made a good decision years ago. One of the advantages of having a job that can’t be exported.
Parasitism enabled by the State is not to be regarded as a brilliant career move.
The rest of us aren’t jealous of their success: we’re angry - and with excellent reason.
Troll.
I have an old book that was my grandfather's about how to lie with statistics.
1. Never, ever us the median.
2. Always use averages.
There was a lot more of course, but an average is far easier to manipulate into something meaningless. Even couch potatoes are finally beginning to catch on to this.
I do believe the numbers are on our side with this issue, but we need to present a more complete set of data.
Really, the crap we are presenting on public employee costs is as ambiguous and vague as global warmist crap.
Some one put out something with depth and raw data.
LOL...well,then,...it’s BUSH’s fault !
often the people screaming the loudest like to confuse the argument by complicating it to the point people’s eyes gloss over...
the country’s collective gut instinct is correct- gubmint unions are a scam and a conflict of interest to the taxpaying public’s financial well-being.
look around: those “laboratories of democracy” just tells us what does NOT work and why:
Detroit and Decay [city may abandon half its schools to pay union benefits]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657788/posts
Why Teacher Pensions Don’t Work
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2655928/posts
Better Than Bankruptcy: Trim Fat State Pensions
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2674906/posts
Kentucky Senate Votes To End Guaranteed Pensions
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2673540/posts
Flashback- City taxpayers foot 90% of municipal pensions
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2677070/posts
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