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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And fyi the "we're so underpaid" is just false, I am sorry but it is. I don't think teachers are overpaid either. I think the compensation is well in line with those for other jobs requiring similar education (but no, it's not in line with inflated tech salaries - guess what you still have a job and thousands of them don't so joke's on them)[/quote]

I’m a 2nd year teacher making 63k, and I work tons of overtime.

You think that’s paid well? [/quote]

Um... yes! $63k is a great salary for a little over a year of experience and summers off. [/quote]

This person has more than two years of experience (and maybe quite a bit more, depending on whether they have a master’s)—time in student teaching is not nothing.

Let’s say teachers are working 50 hr weeks (which I think is a conservative estimate) and adjust to 42 weeks a year factoring in summer.

This person is being paid $30 an hour. They do also get benefits (though they are substantially degraded from even a few years ago) and the weeks off for winter and spring breaks.

If you insist on factoring in those weeks as “time off” (as though salaried professionals in other field don’t also get leave they take mostly in these periods), it’s $32.30 an hour. 
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The problem is [b]you think most people are making so much more,[/b] and they really aren't, especially straight out of grad school.

Btw there are about 260 work days in the year. Most full time salaried workers get 2-3 weeks of leave per year or 10-15 days. Meaning assuming they take those days, they are working for 245-250 days of the year for their contracted salary. You do the math about who has more work days before "overtime". Many salaried workers end up working nights and weekends.[/quote]

No, I do not "think most people are making so much more."

I know that people with comparable education, and who we as a society trust with comparable responsibility--RNs, for example--make more.

More salaried professionals should join unions, but that is neither here nor there. I am a salaried professional and have not had fewer than four weeks of annual leave at any point in a 25-year career.

Crabs dragging one another back into a pot is no way to produce a thriving populace.[/quote]

None of the hospital systems in Montgomery County offer pensions for their employees. RNs are eligible for overtime which offers an opportunity for increased pay, but many nurse jobs are shift jobs which are the opposite of family friendly.

Of course it would be great if everyone had more money, including teachers. I do not think that is realistic for teachers as long as pay is primarily based on tenure and not performance (and I'm not talking about test scores).[/quote]

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