Teachers- How much do you get paid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Me: $70k, 13 years experience, masters, public school
Husband: $46k, 14 years experience, bachelors, private school.

Hmm..do I know you? Do you teach kindergarten and have 2 young daughters?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is unbelievable sad for me to read. I mean, seriously?

Only a 10k difference between someone without a degree and someone with a Masters........WOW

No study has shown that a teacher with a master's degree is in any way better than one without. So why should they even be paid that much more? (Good teachers should be paid well, better than they are, but their salaries shouldn't be based on years of experience or if they have a master's degre.)

So how would you judge them as "good" ? Test scores? What about early childhood teachers? Standardized testing (NCLB mandate) doesn't start until third grade.

Give us your thoughts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Me: $70k, 13 years experience, masters, public school
Husband: $46k, 14 years experience, bachelors, private school.

Hmm..do I know you? Do you teach kindergarten and have 2 young daughters?

Haha! No, but I think there are a lot of people like us out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, anyone can look up public school teacher salaries; they're on every district's website.

Yes, but several districts have been on a pay freeze for anywhere from one to four years, so the data could be a little skewed (I am a PP who said I make $70k, which is what a 10 year teacher makes, but I am at 13 years).

[Anonymous]

Arlington, 2 years, Masters, 50k

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Arlington, 2 years, Masters, 50k

Not bad. Gotta love APS. Seriously!!

[Anonymous]

$50k is nice, but it's hard to support a family in this area without another income. It's ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$50k is nice, but it's hard to support a family in this area without another income. It's ridiculous.

The salary is a bit misleading because of working 9 months. take the salary divide by nine then times 12 is the real salary, that ls not including the gold plated health and ension benifits.

[Anonymous]

http://www.ehow.com/how_7502561_calculate-teachers-prorated-salary.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$50k is nice, but it's hard to support a family in this area without another income. It's ridiculous.

The salary is a bit misleading because of working 9 months. take the salary divide by nine then times 12 is the real salary, that ls not including the gold plated health and ension benifits.

Where do people come up with nine months? Around here teachers work through most of June and go back in September which leaves July and August when most teachers I know are taking continuing ed classes or material for the next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$50k is nice, but it's hard to support a family in this area without another income. It's ridiculous.

The salary is a bit misleading because of working 9 months. take the salary divide by nine then times 12 is the real salary, that ls not including the gold plated health and ension benifits.

Where do people come up with nine months? Around here teachers work through most of June and go back in September which leaves July and August when most teachers I know are taking continuing ed classes or material for the next year.

So true. I am out of my classroom around June 20 and back in around Aug 10. School in the District doesn't start after labor day. It usually starts around Aug 25. I work at camp in the summer. Take about three weeks off in July to be with my family at our lake cottage in upstate NY to rest and regain my sanity so I can start all over again. I teach Pre-K. It is physically and emotionally tiring, but I pretty much love it. Can't imagine being in a desk job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$50k is nice, but it's hard to support a family in this area without another income. It's ridiculous.

The salary is a bit misleading because of working 9 months. take the salary divide by nine then times 12 is the real salary, that ls not including the gold plated health and ension benifits.

Teachers work about 10 months, not 9. They go back to school before students and stay after students have left. And they are not paid in the summer, unless their salary is stretched over 12 months (making each pay period less money but the same yearly total). I believe your math was ripped to shreds on another thread already, as was your misunderstandings about teaching, teacher benefits, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$50k is nice, but it's hard to support a family in this area without another income. It's ridiculous.

The salary is a bit misleading because of working 9 months. take the salary divide by nine then times 12 is the real salary, that ls not including the gold plated health and ension benifits.[/quote

It's 10 months. And most professionals have access to health insurance and pension "benifits."

DH and I are both in our 2nd year at MCPS. I have a masters and make $51k, he has a bachelors plus some and makes $46k. We were previously on other career paths.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$50k is nice, but it's hard to support a family in this area without another income. It's ridiculous.

The salary is a bit misleading because of working 9 months. take the salary divide by nine then times 12 is the real salary, that ls not including the gold plated health and ension benifits.

Where do people come up with nine months? Around here teachers work through most of June and go back in September which leaves July and August when most teachers I know are taking continuing ed classes or material for the next year.

So true. I am out of my classroom around June 20 and back in around Aug 10. School in the District doesn't start after labor day. It usually starts around Aug 25. I work at camp in the summer. Take about three weeks off in July to be with my family at our lake cottage in upstate NY to rest and regain my sanity so I can start all over again. I teach Pre-K. It is physically and emotionally tiring, but I pretty much love it. Can't imagine being in a desk job.

I have tons of respect for teachers and think they are underpaid, undervalued etc but you know 3 weeks of straight vacation isn't possible in most other jobs, right? What an incredible perk!

[Anonymous]

Our school goes through late June and summer PD is the first week of August until school starts in late August. Thus we have about five weeks off.