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40-50k a year is well under a poverty income in most urban areas in the US. What we pay teachers is abysmal, and the not surprising result is that many of our t
by ecopoesis 13y ago
40-50k a year is well under a poverty income in most urban areas in the US. What we pay teachers is abysmal, and the not surprising result is that many of our teachers are also abysmal.
- mjmahone17 13y agoNo it isn't, at least not officially. Poverty is defined as $23,050 total yearly income for a family of four. So even assuming a teacher is the sole earner in their family, if they're making 40k, they're not in poverty. Unable to afford all the nice things the HN crowd loves to talk about? Maybe. But still, if you have a two-teacher family earning 80k/year, they're in the 53rd percentile of US income, according to http://www.whatsmypercent.com/ http://www.whatsmypercent.com/
- rayiner 13y agoWhat the hell are you on? $35k is a very good starting salary in most urban areas in the U.S. that aren't NYC or SF. $45,000 in Chicago (a city with average CoL as far as urban areas in the U.S. go) is about $2,700 per month take home. A decent 1BR runs about $750 in a decent neighborhood. You can live very comfortably for that much. And people do--that's a very typical income for a college graduate professional in the city.
- ecopoesis 13y agoLving in Boston has distorted my reality. Here, decent 1 BRs cost $1500 a month. http://www.wbur.org/2013/01/30/boston-apartments-heat-map http://www.wbur.org/2013/01/30/boston-apartments-heat-map