Private School Salaries (Sidwell)
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Anonymous
| Just saw a posting and considering an application. Looking for any insight into teacher salaries (I have a Master's if that matters). No private school teaching experience, but several years of college-level teaching. Are salaries varied across lower, middle, and upper schools? Thanks. |
Anonymous
| I hear the suck across the board at IS, but you will get a lot of time for planning and the opportunity to take some nice professional development cases locally and sometimes abroad. |
Anonymous
| Maret offers competitive salaries to experienced teachers. Try them. |
Anonymous
| I don't think they compare to public schools because of the school funding and union contracts. There was a kindergarten teacher at my DD's public elementary who had been there for 20-25 years and he was making about $125K. He has since retired but that was about 5 years ago. I believe the starting salary in DCPS is about 60K or 65K. |
Anonymous
That's definitely not the starting salary in DCPS. The only teachers who start that high will have extensive prior teaching experience and/or a Masters or higher degree. |
Anonymous
It's pretty hard to get a private school teaching job without teaching credentials. They can employ uncredentialed teachers, but with such a huge pool of teachers available (there are far more teachers than teaching jobs), there's not a lot of reason to, unless the job is an especially hard one to fill (like Chinese teacher, maybe). In general, college teaching is not great preparation for being an effective high school teacher. |
Anonymous
Not correct. With a BA or BS alone, starting is over 50 and moves up by 60% over a full career. With a Master's or above, for a full carer, it goes over 105. That does not include pension contributions, which are very substantial. External link to DCPS: http://dcps.dc.gov/page/compensation-and-benefits-teachers Alexandria, Arlington, and MontCo are a bit below, but not dramatically. Nearly all privates pay much, much less at every level. |
Anonymous
| DCPS teacher salaries are the highest in the region. Unfortunately, most of the choice schools are WoTP and competitive to get placed in those schools. |
Anonymous
| What about teaching and coaching or performing arts? How much more for additional activities? |
Anonymous
Are you a teacher in DCPS or just looking at the chart without an understanding of how the increases works? My wife is a DCPS teacher and I am telling you starting salaries are only that high with experience and/or advanced degrees. Don't let that chart fool you...most don't even get their annual increases. Teachers are fleeing DCPS left and right! |
Anonymous
This is not at all true. Many privates actually pride themselves on hiring teachers who did not have teaching backgrounds. The old joke was that if you had a teaching degree you go to public school because the salaries and benefits were so much better. I think these days more private school teachers have or get teaching degrees after they begin work, but my understanding is that this is more of a recent change. |
Anonymous
| What about salaries at the top DC independents? |
Anonymous
Not great. Crappy benefits. Good jobs for people with high earning spouses, and the independently wealthy. No tuition benefits either. |
Anonymous
Most of them have some tuition benefit, not just as much as they used to have. |
Anonymous
You are basing this on...? My experience has been the opposite. |