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So where are these numbers coming from? A contractual maximum of 190 work days sounds a lot like 200 days a year, which is pretty normal (52 weeks with 4 off f
by kurthr 10y ago
So where are these numbers coming from?
A contractual maximum of 190 work days sounds a lot like 200 days a year, which is pretty normal (52 weeks with 4 off for vacation and 5 days a week = 190)
In California (I don't know Illinois) teachers get a pension, but DO NOT GET Social Security!
I see some clickbait articles searching about Buffalo Grove teachers, but those end up leading to data from ISBE.
https://www.isbe.net/Documents/teacher_salary_14-15.pdf https://www.isbe.net/Documents/teacher_salary_14-15.pdf
The data from there doesn't come up to $150k even for maximums. They list $122-139k as the maximum from 2011-15 with median values of $67-74k.
- kahirsch 10y ago190 = 5 × 38
- kurthr 10y agothanks... an extra 10 weeks off for summer. it's 2000 hours per year that is typical.
- tptacek 10y agoThe salaries for public employees of most of Chicago suburbs are public information. I'm not guessing: there's a web page that lists them all, by name. I know this because some friends and I were comparing notes on the salaries of teachers in our respective suburbs yesterday, on Slack. I don't have the link handy, but if you'd like to wager against me on this, I'm happy to take your money. :) I do not understand your math on workdays. I am terrible at math, but it sure sounds to me like 48 work weeks in a year is 240 work days, not 200, or 190.
- kurthr 10y agoYes I already responded that you are correct to the exact same comment on 200 days vs 2000 hours an hour before your comment. I posted a link to exactly the salary information you are referring to in my unedited comment. They do not match those in the parent comment.
- tptacek 10y agoSorry, I went through my browser history and it's Arlington Heights, not Buffalo Grove (they're adjacent and I get them confused). You would have won the bet! What was the highest normal teacher salary you saw in Buffalo Grove? In Arlington Heights, it's $150,660.
- kurthr 10y agoThanks for your understanding... we all make mistakes.
- r00fus 10y agoCite on teachers/firefighters in CA not getting Social Security [1]. Amazing they get taxed for something they never benefit from. The special-case where a non-teacher who paid into SS for years and then became a teacher losing out on years of SS he'd built up is very unfortunate. [1] http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Ripoff-Social-Security-and-California-Teachers.html http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Ripoff-Social-Securi...
- dv_dt 10y agoAlso in CA, LAUSD I believe runs their schools year round. And that district alone has larger attendance and budgets than many entire states. But being both urban and higher cost, high attendance, and year-round has a weight that shifts the calculations for CA such that I suspect you can't do a back of the envelope calc and get an easy comparison.