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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is $50000 for 9-10 months of work not a great salary?  She is not making much less than engineers if you extrapolate for the months she is off. [/quote]

OP here -- this is what I mean.   If it is such a great salary for only 10 months of work, why aren't candidates for teaching lining up around the block looking for jobs?   How can there possibly be a teacher shortage and why are teachers leaving the profession in such large numbers?[/quote]

It 50K for ten months of work but at 40-60 hours a week.  Why are they leaving? entitlement kids, annoying parents, unsupportive admin...that's just the tip of the iceberg.[/quote]

But it isn't $50K.

Here is a listing of average teacher salaries by state in 2017.  [url]http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/teacherbeat/2018/04/teacher_pay_2017.html[/url]

14 states, the average teacher salary is below $50K.
14 states, the average teacher salary is $50K-55K.
9 states, the average teacher salary is $50-60K.

That means in 14 states, the average teacher makes below $50K.  In 37 out of 50 states, the average teacher makes below $60K.  And if these are the averages, that means that there are a lot of teachers making below the average.

In addition, here is a list of the starting teacher salaries in the 2017-2018 school year.  [url]http://www.nea.org/home/2017-2018-average-starting-teacher-salary.html[/url]

[b]There is only one state (NJ) and one jurisdiction (DC) that starts teachers over $50K. [/b] In 49 states, the starting salary for teachers is under $50K.  In 34 states, the starting salary for teachers is under $40K with the lowest being Montana where the average starting teacher salary is $31.2K.  Again, that's the average and there are plenty of teachers that start below the average.  The national average for starting teachers salary is $39.2K.

Niche provides more statistics, but the information was updated in September 2017, so the data is likely from 2015 or 2016.  [url]https://www.niche.com/blog/teacher-salaries-in-america/[/url]
Niche reports that the average starting salary is $38.K and the average salary for all teachers nationwide is $58.9K
Niche reports that based on years of experience, the average teacher salary does not pass $50K until they have 10 years of experience in public schools and 30 years in private schools.

There are a lot of teachers that make less than $50K annually nation-wide.[/quote]

In Prince William County, teachers start at $50,000. [/quote]

Yes, but Prince William County is not the entire state of Virginia.  Even with all 5380 teachers in the county making over $50K, they only represent 6% of the public school teachers in the state of Virginia.  Virginia as a state comes in at $40, 453 as a statewide average of all teachers, not just starting teachers.  So if all teachers in PWCPS start at $50K and above, that means that state-wide there are a lot of teachers making well below $50K.  Plus the National Council on Teacher Quality (see link below) reports that teachers' salaries start at $48K, not $50K.

[url]https://www.nctq.org/contract-database/district/Prince-William-County-Public-Schools[/url]
[url]https://ballotpedia.org/Public_education_in_Virginia[/url][/quote]

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