OK teachers ave salary - $46,217
(http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/mar/07/good-jobs-first/are-oklahoma-teachers-lowest-paid-nearly/) Ya, I know, but they had some numbers.
Teacher ‘work’ 184 days a year.
Each ‘workday’ is 6 hours, with a one hour prop period and lunch - so I just say 8 hours to avoid the quibbles.
8 x 184 = 1,472 work hours per year.
46,217/1472 = $31.40 /hr. Damn good pay for a soft degree like education... Don’t forget state-paid health care, bloated retirement and so on....
BTW - name the degree program where the students enter with the lowest SAT scores but graduate with the highest PS?
YA, ed majors.
Underpaid and overworked? No sale.
The Oklahoma legislature 'works' about 80 days a year. Their salary is $7,000 higher than the average starting salary for a new teacher. Legislature leadership makes over $10,000 more than the average teacher for those 80 days of work. Add per diem and mileage and the legislatures make more for their 80 days of work that the overwhelming majority of teachers.
Don't say teachers are under-worked. Compared to others they aren't.