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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To get back to the original topic…

I am a teacher at a large, well-respected NOVA private. Our school has been very vocal about teacher salaries being “at or above those of our peer schools” (they have not said which schools those peer schools are). I have been teaching for 10 years and have a masters. I teach a STEM subject. I currently make about $68,000 annually and until recently our school was on a step salary scale that was public to all teachers. Our raises last year (which got me to my current salary) were between 3 and 3.5%.[/quote]

Hey, I teach at a large MD private with a masters, 9 years of experience, and an Arts subject. My salary is just over $76K. You are getting shafted more than we are already being shafted.

Our school is pretending to compare our salary bands (that aren’t publicized) to our peer schools (that also aren’t publicized) to ensure we are comparable. When asked how they are making the comparison they said they are using Glassdoor… which I find to be a little low at least for my school. Perhaps we should make a salary transparency group/website to help add less obscurity to our salary bands in the area.

One additional thing I’ve noticed is the hiring process is long at my school and you don’t find out about salary until the end, even if you ask. This probably deters people and/or wastes their time interviewing for a job they can’t afford to take. [/quote]

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