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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]The average salary in the us is in the 40s[/b]

Teacher salaries are know when people choose the career

Teachers love to complain[/quote]

The average salary for college-educated people? How about master's degree? 
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Except an M.Ed isn’t equivalent to an M.S. Compare apples to apples. What do you think the average English major makes?[/quote]

Well? What are the numbers? Not $40k.

How much does an average college grad make right out of school? [/quote]

Crickets. Guess you aren’t very good with numbers.

Here you go: 
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/student-loans/average-salary-college-graduates/

The average college grad makes $59,600 in 2022.

The average for young teachers is $39,000.

That $20k gap is the issue. In fact, the average college grad even makes MORE than an experienced teacher ($51,000).

We need to pay teachers more to attract and retain good teachers. Period. There may be other contributing factors but it really all comes down to money. You get what you pay for. No money, no teachers.

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Georgetown looked at recent college grad salaries broken down by major. Education majors did well compared to everyone except for those with a handful of STEM-related degrees.
https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/valueofcollegemajors/

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This!  In our capitalistic society, pay is based on educational rigor/difficulty and specialization.  Pay for educators is in line with what is to be expected based on the difficulty of obtaining the degree.  You cant speak out against communism  and then show disdain for capitalism whenever you lack profit.

The teacher shortage could be reversed by reducing educational and licensing requirements.  Most teachers do not need a master's degree as most learning happens in the field.  This would increase the number of teachers and reduce wages thereby enabling more teachers to be hired in classrooms.  If every classroom K-12 had 1-2 assistants, teacher workload would be reduced, morale would increase because there would be more support, and children would win.  [/quote]

Actually there are plenty of more rigorous majors on that list that are paid less than education graduates.[/quote]

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