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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is VERY common for teachers to have second or third jobs.  Have you seen the pay scale? They start in the 40s.  You try finding a decent 1-bedroom apartment at that salary.  Let alone buy a car, pay for insurance, pay for food AND pay off student loans...  All for a thankless job where we're attacked at every turn.  I used to tell people I was a teacher, and I said it with pride.  Now I just make up something.[/quote]

Puleeezze.  The average individual income for PW is $48,000.  The average PWCP school teacher is $57,000.  Stop it with the slave wages bullshit. [/quote]

Where the fk do you think you can live alone in PWC on $57k/year?

My mom got paid semimonthly when she was a teacher and that happened for the whole year, not just while teaching. I'm not sure of the pay schedule now. Let's assume it's the same.

I plugged in $57k in the smart asset calculator for VA.

$57k/year equals $1,771 semimonthly after taxes or $3542/month after taxes.

A 1-bedroom apartment in PWC is running $1800-2200/month.

$3542-1800 = $1742

Utilities - $200
Health insurance - $150
Car insurance - $120
Phone - $60
Internet - $80 
Groceries for month - $400
Expenses total $1010

$1742-1010 = $732 left.

And that's not even accounting for them having student loan payments, a car payment, for 401k contributions.

Of course teachers have to have second jobs! Even back then my mom worked at Khol's on the weekends. 
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