“Let’s see... $76,000 + 25,000 in health ins, pension and other benefits for 180 days per year work.
180/5= 36 weeks
$101,000 / 36 weeks = $2,805.55 per week
$2,805.55 per week X 52 weeks = $145,889.60 per year equivalent”
and, mind you, that evil Rahm wants to extend the workday from 6hrs, 45minutes, to (GASP!!) SEVEN HOURS PER DAY!
and there lies the disconnect with the rest of us. a short day for me is 10 hours.
Most people it’s 8-9 hours a day, 5 days a week year round for as much as HALF what these “teachers” make.
To bad Chicago does not have a Reagan as mayor. He’d fire the whole lot of them like the air traffic controllers.
Good teachers like my late wife did not stop working after leaving her classroom. She worked a couple of hours every night and a lot on the weekends. Taxpayers got their money worth from her and there are lots of devoted teachers like her.
Teachers worked 6 hours per day and Rahm’s unilateral extension of the workday by an hour is a 16.7% increase in the work day. He provoked this strike for his own political reasons.
Teachers get great health benefits but their pensions are not particularly generous.
Anyone who has to deal with the Chicago pupils (75% of Blacks out of wedlock, gang infestation, worshippers of Evil) and/or their insane parents gets burned out VERY fast. I would not be able to do their job for 150Gs a year.