Private school teacher salary

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look at the heaviness of your school’s admin team. That’s where the money goes. The discrepancy between HOS salary and a teacher’s salary is just gross. Plus, the HOS often gets a house and possibly a car. Admins often get a month off in the summer. And I have taught in several DMV independent schools - while the HOS has to handle the headaches, the job is not comparable to that of a business exec. They surround themselves with other well-paid administrators who handle much of the work. It’s really disgraceful how little the teachers make.

Well said

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Could you share your salary and school anonymously? I work at FCPS and am wondering how much local privates are paying their teachers. I’m getting sick of the endless demands at my current job and would love having the more manageable workload of a private school.

My salary went up by 50% when I went from private to MCPS.

What about your work load? Did it increase significantly in MCPS. And do you miss the warm and cozy private school environment?

At my private I was the only one teaching multiple grades of my subject. I now have a co planning teaching team for a single grade level (same subject). My workload has drastically reduced, even with nearly 3x the students!!

I do miss the people, but not the environment as much as you’d think. My particular school has a wonderful teaching community. I know not everyone switching to MCPS is as lucky.

Let me guess. You teach middle school

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not worried about teacher salaries at our private school. They have great students, summers off, and they get crazy generous financial aid for their kids.

Teacher here. I wanted to disabuse you of some of your claims. I'm a ten-month employee, so I do not get paid year round. That means I have to budget my money all year to cover my expenses. It's not like I get a two month paid vacation. Second, my summers are devoted to required professional development training, preparation for courses I teach (especially new ones or ones I want to propose), and the continuation of work from committees I'm on year-round (which are independent of the courseload I teach). Third, my school, the tuition for which is almost $60k, does not offer generous financial aid for the children of faculty or staff.

There is no way you are spending two solid months working 40
Hours a week in professional development.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not worried about teacher salaries at our private school. They have great students, summers off, and they get crazy generous financial aid for their kids.

Teacher here. I wanted to disabuse you of some of your claims. I'm a ten-month employee, so I do not get paid year round. That means I have to budget my money all year to cover my expenses. It's not like I get a two month paid vacation. Second, my summers are devoted to required professional development training, preparation for courses I teach (especially new ones or ones I want to propose), and the continuation of work from committees I'm on year-round (which are independent of the courseload I teach). Third, my school, the tuition for which is almost $60k, does not offer generous financial aid for the children of faculty or staff.

There is no way you are spending two solid months working 40
Hours a week in professional development.

I’m another private school teacher.

I spend 20-25 hours a week during my summer on schoolwork. Unlike the publics, I design my own curriculum. I revise it every summer. On my own time.

I also attend 3-4 professional development opportunities each summer, most of which are 2-3 days long each.

My point is I’m working for free most of my summer. Perhaps it isn’t a full 40 hours, but since I’m not getting paid I feel fairly comfortable cutting my hours at 20.

There’s a lot that goes into teaching. My summer work makes the school work easier.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Could you share your salary and school anonymously? I work at FCPS and am wondering how much local privates are paying their teachers. I’m getting sick of the endless demands at my current job and would love having the more manageable workload of a private school.

My salary went up by 50% when I went from private to MCPS.

What about your work load? Did it increase significantly in MCPS. And do you miss the warm and cozy private school environment?

At my private I was the only one teaching multiple grades of my subject. I now have a co planning teaching team for a single grade level (same subject). My workload has drastically reduced, even with nearly 3x the students!!

I do miss the people, but not the environment as much as you’d think. My particular school has a wonderful teaching community. I know not everyone switching to MCPS is as lucky.

Let me guess. You teach middle school

Ha! You’re not wrong. Guess I’m not the only one in that situation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I left a Big 3 private in 2016 and was making $75,000 with 11 years of experience.

75K/year at a Big 3? Seriously? I have four kids at one of the big 3. What the hell does the school do with almost 200k/year in tuition from me?

Why can't the big 3 pay teachers like Google SWE with benefits? I am sure the money is there and the school can raise tuition if it wants to, right?

look at propublica's resources on what the Head of School earns. The money goes there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I left a Big 3 private in 2016 and was making $75,000 with 11 years of experience.

75K/year at a Big 3? Seriously? I have four kids at one of the big 3. What the hell does the school do with almost 200k/year in tuition from me?

Why can't the big 3 pay teachers like Google SWE with benefits? I am sure the money is there and the school can raise tuition if it wants to, right?

look at propublica's resources on what the Head of School earns. The money goes there.

Those salaries are out of control. The hos at wis is at 1 million dollars. For a school? Give me a break.

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Anonymous wrote:Could you share your salary and school anonymously? I work at FCPS and am wondering how much local privates are paying their teachers. I’m getting sick of the endless demands at my current job and would love having the more manageable workload of a private school.

My salary went up by 50% when I went from private to MCPS.

What about your work load? Did it increase significantly in MCPS. And do you miss the warm and cozy private school environment?

At my private I was the only one teaching multiple grades of my subject. I now have a co planning teaching team for a single grade level (same subject). My workload has drastically reduced, even with nearly 3x the students!!

I do miss the people, but not the environment as much as you’d think. My particular school has a wonderful teaching community. I know not everyone switching to MCPS is as lucky.

Let me guess. You teach middle school

Ha! You’re not wrong. Guess I’m not the only one in that situation.

I only said that because it sounds like you have one prep which is more common in middle school. HS and ES teachers usually teach multiple subjects or at least multiple levels of a subject. Good for you though. I’m glad switching to MCPS has been positive for you

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I left a Big 3 private in 2016 and was making $75,000 with 11 years of experience.

75K/year at a Big 3? Seriously? I have four kids at one of the big 3. What the hell does the school do with almost 200k/year in tuition from me?

Why can't the big 3 pay teachers like Google SWE with benefits? I am sure the money is there and the school can raise tuition if it wants to, right?

look at propublica's resources on what the Head of School earns. The money goes there.

Those salaries are out of control. The hos at wis is at 1 million dollars. For a school? Give me a break.

It is pretty crazy but who is going to say no to the HOS. The board is usually made up of corporate fat cats who are used to a system where the kingpin CEO is paid 3000x more than the minions. They propagate a flawed system.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Look at the heaviness of your school’s admin team. That’s where the money goes. The discrepancy between HOS salary and a teacher’s salary is just gross. Plus, the HOS often gets a house and possibly a car. Admins often get a month off in the summer. And I have taught in several DMV independent schools - while the HOS has to handle the headaches, the job is not comparable to that of a business exec. They surround themselves with other well-paid administrators who handle much of the work. It’s really disgraceful how little the teachers make.

Well said

+1

-Number of admin and non-teaching personnel in various departments continuously increasing for obscure reasons.
-at the same time, hiring expensive consultants to outsource completion of various projects such as photography campaigns, website revamping, marketing, constituent surveys, when the school has employees who are qualified (per job description) to do those things.

The extra spending causes a strain on the resources that could be allocated to increasing teacher pay or even helping reduce the endless tasks. There are more employees around but teachers seem to always have more and more to do.

Around the holidays, at a school I used to work at, teachers received absolutely nothing, not even a small note from the leadership. They did, however, have the audacity to tell parents not to give teachers anything worth more than $20/$25. Teachers aren’t after presents but that messaging felt like a slap in the face. What a classless move.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look at the heaviness of your school’s admin team. That’s where the money goes. The discrepancy between HOS salary and a teacher’s salary is just gross. Plus, the HOS often gets a house and possibly a car. Admins often get a month off in the summer. And I have taught in several DMV independent schools - while the HOS has to handle the headaches, the job is not comparable to that of a business exec. They surround themselves with other well-paid administrators who handle much of the work. It’s really disgraceful how little the teachers make.

Well said

+1

-Number of admin and non-teaching personnel in various departments continuously increasing for obscure reasons.
-at the same time, hiring expensive consultants to outsource completion of various projects such as photography campaigns, website revamping, marketing, constituent surveys, when the school has employees who are qualified (per job description) to do those things.

The extra spending causes a strain on the resources that could be allocated to increasing teacher pay or even helping reduce the endless tasks. There are more employees around but teachers seem to always have more and more to do.

Around the holidays, at a school I used to work at, teachers received absolutely nothing, not even a small note from the leadership. They did, however, have the audacity to tell parents not to give teachers anything worth more than $20/$25. Teachers aren’t after presents but that messaging felt like a slap in the face. What a classless move.

I liked what DC’s former nursery/elementary school did for teacher gifts, which was to collect money for a group cash gift by grade, with a percentage taken out to go to specialists (like art, music) who taught multiple grades. It meant that each family could give what they thought best/could afford without any stigma for “not giving enough” or sense of “buying favoritism” for being extremely generous, and every teacher was guaranteed a nice (and equal) gift.

I realize this isn’t a model that works well once students have subject-specific teachers (MS/US), but it was great for the early years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not worried about teacher salaries at our private school. They have great students, summers off, and they get crazy generous financial aid for their kids.

Clearly, it’s just the a$$h01€ parents they have to deal with that makes them deserving of a much higher salary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not worried about teacher salaries at our private school. They have great students, summers off, and they get crazy generous financial aid for their kids.

Clearly, it’s just the a$$h01€ parents they have to deal with that makes them deserving of a much higher salary.

The teachers in my school are quite entitled I must say.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Could you share your salary and school anonymously? I work at FCPS and am wondering how much local privates are paying their teachers. I’m getting sick of the endless demands at my current job and would love having the more manageable workload of a private school.

What makes you think they have a manageable work load ?

Please leave teaching you are not fit for it.

You vastly overestimate your own importance.

DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not worried about teacher salaries at our private school. They have great students, summers off, and they get crazy generous financial aid for their kids.

That’s so big of you. 🙄