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If I had a dollar for every time I got a mug or cupcake instead of a raise, I might actually make what I deserve. I’d say a base of $85k–$100k depending on location and experience would actually reflect the work, planning, emotional load, and unpaid overtime we put in.
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I make a good salary. What I need is for the job to be sustainable. I need kids to come to school ready to learn. I need parents to care about their child’s education. I need enough prep time to get the paperwork, planning, and prep done during paid working hours. I need qualified, caring support professionals to meet student needs in my inclusive classroom. The pay is good here, but the job is just too much.
I get tired of seeing posts like this. No one forced us to become teachers. It's no secret that it doesn't pay all that much.
For me the pros outweigh the cons by a lot. I worked private sector jobs before becoming a teacher. There are pressures and expectations that teachers never have to deal with. Could you make more money? Yes. You'd have to accept the limitations with it though.
I have had to actually "scrape by" at times in life. Times when a second or third job was necessary to cover essential bills. My districts pay scale is the highest in the county, but not very high compared to the rest of the state.
From what I can see teaching is far from "scraping by". Do many people with your amount of education make a lot more money? Yes. But it's always been that way. They also have to work right through summer, holiday and spring breaks. If you divided your salary up based on days or hours worked, then applied that amount to working through all of your breaks, the amount you'd make would be similar to people in other fields. Obviously there isn't enough tax money to pay us for hours we don't work.
At some point in life you all chose the perk of having breaks off over working that time and getting paid for it in another field.
There used to be an old meme that was posted in school where a teacher asked to be paid like a Baby sitter for their state and it worked out to be half a million a year.
double- like $100k
Would you agree to forgo tenure if getting paid $80-$100k?
This is true, but the rewards are not monetary, and I love my job!
Definitely, more than the athletes! As a matter of fact, it should be more than money especially, when we think about what a teacher instills in a student (encouragement, discipline, empathy and understanding, patience, love, empowerment, motivation, mentorship, opportunities, confidence, values and ethics etc…). There’s no price that can meet what a teacher deserves.
Hard to convince me an English teacher (myself) is worth more than Patrick Mahomes or Joe Burrow, financially speaking.
For Seattle area, $200,000 to start!
So I live a couple hours from Seattle. Tell everyone what you have to pay in rent or mortgage in order to live within 30 min of a school in Seattle. It's one of the more expensive cities in the country.
If you're ok with community and hour you can do ok, but the cost of living is still pretty high.
If I got paid what I made per hour when I was a private tutor, I would make about twice as much as what I'm making now.
No one is ever going to convince me that working your A$$ off all year to accrue 2-3 weeks vacation is better than getting the summer and holidays off. The perk comes at a cost, but it's a pretty amazing perk.
There are much harder jobs than teaching and often they offer less compensation. I promise you this.
If you need to make more money find a way to work on your breaks. I'm doing it and things are working out fine for me.