Teachers- How much do you get paid?
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Anonymous
Except there was a freeze on steps for the past 3 years. At least in MCPS. |
Anonymous
+1. Lawyer for 3 years, $60k, one week off per year and no retirement contribution. To contribute to the education discussion, though, DH makes $58k as a 5th year professor of English at a large public university (not in DC, we are in NC), which I also find pretty meh. |
Anonymous
Holy crap, what and where do you teach? |
Anonymous
The starting salaries are comparable to most other professional careers. The problem is the lack of growth over the years. |
Anonymous
Fair enough. I'm the PP and it's true that my potential for salary growth over time is much greater than my husband's. His potential for better quality of life is greater than mine, however, as he does get two months off in the summer, does not have to account for every second of his day with billing, has a lot of flexibility with when and how he works, and will not have to contribute a large portion of his salary to retirement contributions. |
Anonymous
They only work the days students are in the room? Plus you know for a fact that your kids' teachers aren't stressed. Wow. I'd like to be sol knowledgeable. |
Anonymous
It's not a "perk." It's unpaid. My contract was ten months. You can, of course, be paid in 12 installments, but you are working a ten-month job. Let's just be clear. You are also unpaid for countless hours on nights and weekends. There's nothing remotely gold-plated about teaching. I left, even though I loved it. |
Anonymous
Lawyer, Is your DH on the tenure track? Have you considered changing career paths to teach secondary level Social Studies? Or if your area of law is science-related, to teach Science? |
Anonymous
He is, he will be up for tenure after next academic year, but the salary pump is only $5k and there will only be one more salary bump after that. $58k was his starting salary, and they were upfront that there would only be two raises of 4-5K each.  As an attorney at a small-ish firm, the more money I bring in, the more money I will make - but I also have small kids and care about my quality of life, so I'm expecting a slow incline on the work front (at least until kids are older). I put in my best when I'm there, but I'm not working crazy hours to make partner or $$$. I've thought about teaching and do know some lawyers who now teach Civics or Social Studies, and one who became a principal (he'd been a teacher for some years before practicing law) - in my region, though, I'd cap at about 50k salary for middle/high school teaching. I'm amazed that some are pulling 70k-100k, which is more than my husband will ever hope to make as a professor. I would absolutely become a teacher for $70k+/year.
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Anonymous
PP here. Your comment makes me wonder who else would enter teaching (primary or secondary) if salaries were higher relative to salaries of other graduates in the workforce, as they are in some other countries. Business Insider: What Teacher Pay Looks Like In The Rest Of The World http://www.businessinsider.com/countries-where-teachers-get-paid-more-2013-7 "US high school teachers are paid 72 percent as much as all college graduates in the workforce, while in other OECD countries, that figure is 90 percent (Exhibit 35)." "Countries with exceptional student achievement treat teaching as a highly selective profession that is accorded tremendous prestige and competitive compensation," wrote the authors. "Only the very best students are admitted into teaching programs in Singapore, Finland, and South Korea, for example, and standards are especially high for elementary school teachers" |