Salaries of Teachers and Comparable Workers

[busbus]

Teacher Salaries, Looking at Comparable Jobs
By Christopher B. Swanson

“With a median salary of $50,784 in 2006 dollars, workers in…comparable occupations outearn teachers by a notable margin. This difference corresponds to a pay-parity-index value of 88.0 for the nation, meaning that teachers earn about 88 cents to every dollar earned by comparable workers.”

How do you like them apples? :rolleyes:

Read the article - see link below.


http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/01/10/18salaries.h27.html

[Chef Dave]

[SIZE="2"]How do you like them apples? :rolleyes:


Been there. Done that.

Yes, I made more money in the private sector but the hours were horrible. I was under contract to work a minimum of 50 hours a week but frequently worked 70 to 80 with no overtime compensation.

I worked weekends and holidays. I got one cruddy week a year for vacation and last year I didn't get a vacation because I got called in to replace a manager who had resigned.

Teaching has its compensations. The hours spent in culinary arts are far less than what I spent working at restaurants. The vacation schedule is better. If you have kids, you get off work when they get out of school and you have the same holiday schedule.

[Christiana]

I am a the top of the salry scale with Masters plus 60; I earn 74,000. However, I do put in at last 50 hours a week.

[upnorthteacher]

Yes, we have better hours and vacation time. We have to remember that we are paid only for the weeks that we work. That said, there is much disparity in salaries even among teachers. I work in a poor, rural district where the top of the salary schedule is just under $50,000. With nine years experience and finishing my master's degree this year, I earn $37,000. It makes it hard to swallow paying for 6 credits every 5 years in order to maintain a teaching license. However, as long as I have kids at home, it is definitely worth it to me to have the vacation days to spend with them.

[busbus]

It makes it hard to swallow paying for 6 credits every 5 years in order to maintain a teaching license.

The teachers in my school district get credit from the college or university that they attend for advanced degrees; however, they also get credit through their attendance at school district professional development. Some of the PD is through our 1/2 day district-wide professional development. Also, there are several full day P.D. sessions during the school year when students are not in attendance.

I haven't done the math; but, I understand that if a teacher is in attendance at all of the 1/2 day and full day P.D. the number of credits accumulated over five years adds up to what is mandated to maintain his/her license.

[upnorthteacher]

Wisconsin is one of the states that doesn't allow hours of inservice to be applied to licensing requirements. We are required to have at least 6 university credits, and many school districts require that they be graduate credits. Our universities have quite the guaranteed income here!

[busbus]

Wisconsin is one of the states that doesn't allow hours of inservice to be applied to licensing requirements. We are required to have at least 6 university credits, and many school districts require that they be graduate credits. Our universities have quite the guaranteed income here!

Well, I see, our teachers getting licensing credit from inservice is a plus.

I guess that if I were mandated to get university credits, I would opt for a degree program. But, what do I do after obtaining the doctorate? I imagine, still get at least six university credits every five years if I wanted to maintain my license.!