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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not unpaid time.  Your wife gets an annual salary that covers her annual schedule.  Whether she gets paid in 10 payments or 12 is immaterial.

The maximum teacher's salary in MCPS is $132K and the median is $73K, so I don't know why your wife isn't making around that after 12 years.

Many of us in the private sector pay $12K or more a year in premiums to insure our families.  Add that in to the salary for a more realistic view of your wife's compensation relative to others.  Honestly, I don't think its bad.

People who want to make $100K+ take risks to do so -- they can be fired at will, they must generate revenue, they often work very long hours, etc.  Or they choose a high-return profession which has its own risks and rewards.

If you choose to be a teacher, I believe you should be generously and fairly compensated, and I understand that good benefits and flexible time in the summer and vacations are two benefits that attract teachers.    But you really can't have it both ways.

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It is absolutely unpaid time.  Teachers are paid for 10 months and unpaid for two.   Unpaid as in no paychecks.  There are some teachers that do work 11 or 12 months and most administrators are paid for 12 months of work.  These positions generally pay much more because they are 12 month positions.  In fact the $132K teachers you talk about are 12 month employees who work year round and are paid for it.  There are very few of these relative to the total number of teachers.

The top pay for ten month teachers is a little over $100K.  Those are teachers will over 25 years working and a PHD.

Finally the 7% is for a pension only.  If you want a 401 (or 403) a teacher needs to fund that out of the remaining 93% of their check.  Previous poster was right.  Teachers used to pay 5% and now pay 7. The additional money didn't go into the pension but into the state budget.[/quote]

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