[maine-iac7]

Or lets look at a daycare. My local daycare charges me $20 a day. So, $20 times 25 students is $500 a day, at 185 days is $92,500. Please, pay me like a daycare.

A day care with 25 students would be required to have from 3-5 people on the payroll to help herd the kids. They would also have the expenses to cover, like rent, utilities, - liability insurance - and employee wages, matching taxes, longer hours (kids are dropped off BEFORE parents get to work, picked up after,sometimes quite a time after, daycare doesn't get summers off, - etc etc.

Take those off the top of the $97,175 and I doubt what's left comes up to your salary.

Hope you aren't a math teacher.

[alvindsv]

Hope you aren't a math teacher. Fortunately, I don't teach math. I teach history. Look, I realize that there are other costs associated with running a daycare, I was simply trying to make an analogy. Perhaps it was a poor analogy.

Are teachers overpaid or underpaid? Who knows. Like one of the previous posts stated, since these are government jobs the wage is not being determined by a free market.

[wintertime]

Hope you aren't a math teacher.

Just a socialist ( Marxist-lite).

As I previously posted there should be a bumper sticker:

I am an economic illiterate. Thank a Marxist teacher.