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Re: "grossly underpaid." My son's (NJ) public high school art teacher gets $115k for working Sept-June, plus weeks off in December and April. Retirement at 55
by jimmydddd 5y ago
Re: "grossly underpaid."
My son's (NJ) public high school art teacher gets $115k for working Sept-June, plus weeks off in December and April. Retirement at 55 with pension and subsidized health care. Not awful.
- amatecha 5y agoAh, here in greater Vancouver area, you will never reach a 6-digit salary as a public school teacher. The highest you can ever reach (that I could find[0]) in any school district is $97k CAD which is about $76k USD, and that's only after hitting 10 years. You start out as a teacher around $47k CAD or $37k USD. When you also consider our ~SF-levels cost of living... that's pretty low. Staff in other roles such as education assistant make far less than that. Also, to be a teacher here you must have 4 years of post-secondary education and a degree, so you're likely starting out with tens of $thousands of student loans. [0] https://bcpsea.bc.ca/teachers/collective-agreements/salary-grids/ https://bcpsea.bc.ca/teachers/collective-agreements/salary-g...
- david38 5y agoNJ is one of the highest paying states in the country. That said, the biggest issue affecting the profession is lack of respect, not pay.