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Teachers do not work 60 hours a week. Bureau of Labor Statistics time use studies find that the only age group of teachers that work more than forty hours a wee
by barry-cotter 7y ago
Teachers do not work 60 hours a week. Bureau of Labor Statistics time use studies find that the only age group of teachers that work more than forty hours a week are those over 50.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/03/art4full.pdf https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/03/art4full.pdf
- ikeyany 7y agoIt looks like those statistics have summer months included. That changes things from "60 hour work weeks when school is in session" to "60 hour work weeks amortized over a year". In addition that study notes that teachers are more likely to work a second job, something a Google engineer wouldn't need to do to make a decent wage.
- barry-cotter 7y agoThe median household income in California is $70K[1]. > The average salary of public school teachers in 2017 – 18 for the State of California was $80,680. [2] Teachers make a perfectly decent wage as is, more than the average household . [1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSCAA646N https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSCAA646N [2] https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fr/sa/cefavgsalaries.asp https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fr/sa/cefavgsalaries.asp