muscleupcrohn
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Oh, yeah, teachers get paid pretty poorly, even here in SoFlo/PBC AFAIK. I remember hearing that garbage collectors make more than teachers in a lot of places. No idea if that's true or not, and nothing against garbage collectors (saying "garbage men" makes it sound like I'm saying they're garbage people, as in bad people lol), but teachers need a lot of education, and literally play major roles in shaping the future of the country. I wouldn't necessarily say that teachers should make more money for teaching high school than elementary, for example, as they're sort of just different beasts entirely, but I agree with establishing a better minimum pay for teachers, depending on the state/area they're in, since an NYC teacher needs more money to get by than a rural Alabama teacher, for example, due to much higher cost of living.Yup. I’m from SoFlo (PBC) and can confirm they get paid decent but the nationwide we can find a bunch of first responders paid low wages. Teachers is especially true. I remember one told me they made under $40k around 2014. And people wonder why we get low rankings in education compared to other countries. Market forces have not helped teachers at all and anyone with a brain knows we don’t live in a market as Adam Smith envisioned so applying some of those archaic principles and washing our hands of the issue has gotten us nowhere. We should mandate a minimum wage for teachers, scaling up at different education levels. If we can cut deals for large corporations that do stock buybacks instead of helping workers then hell we can help the people who help educate our youth!
Here in PBC, if I'm looking at the right position, it looks like tarting pay is $41k/year, and goes up to ~$84k/year max. New hire base salary doesn't reach $50k until 17 years of experience, and doesn't reach even $45k until ~12 years experience.
You can get anywhere from $3k to 6k more per year for education beyond a Bachelor's degree, and apparently there's some sort of "Performance Salary Schedule" that seems to give extra pay if they're evaluated well somehow? Not super sure on that TBH.
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But yeah, I wouldn't complain if teachers pay started at $50k/year here in PBC.
As of now, a new teacher with a Master's Degree would start out making $44k/year, and wouldn't make $50k/year until they have 14 years experience. That's pretty low pay for all that education, experience, and importance of the job.
