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I think it's more useful to look at new teacher salaries by state to get around tenure and averaging effects [1]. Fine vs. not fine varies a lot by location in

• hunterloftis 7y ago
  For others who might be interested, the lowest starting salary listed is Montanta ($31,418), highest is DC ($55,209). Scaled up from 10 months to 12 months of work, that's $37,702 and $66,251, respectively. The median household income is $53,386 in Montana and $82,372 in DC [1][2]. In both cases, even the un-scaled teacher's salary easily accounts for half of a typical household's income. So even without tenure and averaging effects, this data backs up the article's claims. 1. https://datausa.io/profile/geo/washington-dc/ https://datausa.io/profile/geo/washington-dc/ 2. https://datausa.io/profile/geo/montana https://datausa.io/profile/geo/montana