Teachers work about 9 months out of the year. That's why $34/hour makes "low pay". That $34/hour is equivalent to $25/hour(12 month) (math: p * 9/12 = s)
Three months off is a benefit, not a penalty.
$34 an hour isn't the equivalent of anything. $34 an hour is $34 an hour. Period.
Teachers work about 9 months out of the year. That's why $34/hour makes "low pay". That $34/hour is equivalent to $25/hour(12 month) (math: p * 9/12 = s)
It's the equivalent to $25/hour with 3 months paid vacation plus excellent bene package.
Why would we divide by 12? they don't work 12 months out of the year.
I did an analysis some years ago in Ontario, Canada. I worked from the Education Act and the financial disclosures of the school boards.
A secondary school teacher was required to work 750 hours per year. That works out to a little over 4 hours per day for about 180 days (40 weeks). When I did the math, the average secondary school teacher in Halton Region earned $82.63 per hour. Add to this sick days, and the best pension system in Canada.
They are better paid than family practitioners.
I know, some work more hours. But they do not 'Have To'.
Teacher never have to travel. They don't have to leave their families. They are home for the daycare pickup without rushing.
I have no sympathy when they complain!
FWIW, in my local schools the teachers' first day this year was July 26 and their last is May 25.
That's 10 months of work, not 9.
Yes, they work 9 months out of the year, which leaves them 3 months to work another job if their teaching salaries aren't enough.
Here in the Cleveland area, the average teacher earns $54,000 per year. (This is according to a survey that the Plain Dealer published a couple of months ago.) According to the Manhattan Institute study, teachers here earn on average $38.86 per hour. That is pretty darn good no matter how you slice it.
So they can't get a summer job?
Teachers work about 9 months out of the year. That's why $34/hour makes "low pay". That $34/hour is equivalent to $25/hour(12 month) (math: p * 9/12 = s)
First, 25 dollars an hour with three months off aint bad.
It allows female teachers to be with their kids.
Other teachers often take a part time job
Well, if you want to do it like that, it's really $5,87/hour, if you count every hour in a year. It's a bogus number which means nothing, jst like yours.
Hourly pay is hourly pay, not a rerverse-calculated annualized pay per hour.
Teacher get into the profession fully aware they work 9 months of the year, and get every little holiday imaginable. If they are unaware of this, they are way to stupid to be teaching! That's often why they do it, for the time off! I'd love to be able to take every summer of, but in my professsion, that's impossible.
"Teachers work about 9 months out of the year."
They work less than that. I've got three living on my little cul-de-sac and they "seem" to be off on every Fed holiday, Christmas week, spring break and all summer. I'm amazed when they are in school.
School years are typically 180 days. That's how I calculated it.
I multiplied 34*8*180. That comes out to be around $50K.
That seems okay, but not great. In San Jose where I live, it would be hard to live on that much.
It's always interesting for me to read the "teacher pay" things and find out how "highly paid" I am. :)
The teacher may "work" 9 months out of the year, but does other outside work for his/her job that isn't figured into it. My hourly wage after my "extra" time is figured in is about $8 an hour.
$25/hour is still $52,000 a year. That's not too bad... especially with all the vacation.
There are teachers in my area earning over $100,000 per year. Granted, they teach specialty areas and coach teams, but some coaches are getting more than $12,000 additional to coach.
Does the 34.06 include benefits (health care and pension? both are the best in the entire country). Amen.