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http://www.aft.org/research/survey01/index.html The average teacher salary continues to fall well below the average wages of other white-collar occupations. While mid-level accountants earned an average $52,664, computer system analysts an average $71,155 and engineers an average $74,920, teachers averaged only $43,250 in 2001. Even in the schoolhouse, teacher salaries increased at a slower rate in 2000-01 than the salaries of superintendents, principals, school secretaries, teacher aides, custodians, cafeteria workers and bus drivers.
Teacher salaries vary considerably across the states. Connecticut had the highest average salary at $53,507. The other top five states were California at $52,480, New Jersey at $51,955, New York at $51,020 and Michigan at $50,515. South Dakota had the lowest average salary at $30,265. "
[Notebob] - teachers in Texas start about 24-26k, dependinging on area. walmart/home depot jobs $6-8/hr.
I'm talking long island here. for a tenured teacher, they make way more then that $51K average. Trust me on this.
and that rate for computer systems analysts only counts the ones who actually have jobs in that field. as they are offshored to India, and take a job in another field, they no longer count as part of that statistic. And your article mentions accounting? My friend at IBM accounting/finance in NJ was just told two weeks ago: bye-bye, their jobs are going to Brazil. Any schoolteachers being offshored to Brazil?
As with everything else, you can make the numbers show anything you want, and the UFT is no exception.