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Anonymous wrote:What is the salary for a first year teacher in Arlington with only a bachelors?
What step/grade do you begin?

$53,280
Step A if you have no experience
All of this information is available on the APS website.

How does that compare to Fairfax and DC? Regardless think it's too low.

It's not much different from salaries for other new grads in non-STEM fields, particularly when you take school breaks into account.

Yes, it's actually pretty good if you're just graduating from college. The problem is it stagnates big time.

I made $25 an hour plus benefits working in a public school 20 years ago just graduating college and now make 4 times that. My job is similar to teaching but more specialized so I work in schools but never want to be hired by one because they pay nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the salary for a first year teacher in Arlington with only a bachelors?
What step/grade do you begin?

$53k for 10 months of work is not peanuts.

For watching and teaching 15-30 kids, writing lesson plans, being asked to sub so you don’t have a planning period and having to take work home, grading papers after school, being forced to use curriculum that doesn’t work, dealing with unsupportive admin, constant parent communication, writing IEPs and reports, and buying your own materials? Hell no it definitely is not enough. $50-75 an hour to start would be sufficient. No way I’d accept that job for 53k though- that’s why they have teacher shortages out the wazoo. A nanny watching one child can make more than $53k per year and there’s not near the level of stress and expectation.

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FGDaddio wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the salary for a first year teacher in Arlington with only a bachelors?
What step/grade do you begin?

$53k for 10 months of work is not peanuts.

So you think $33/hour is appropriate pay for your child's teacher. That is peanuts.

Benefits galore.

What benefits are we talking about? I’m a teacher and we’ve always gotten cheaper health insurance through my husband’s large company. He’s at a non profit that offers better 403b options and considerably higher matching than my district. He gets 6 weeks paid vacation yearly + federal holidays. I have a Master’s and make significantly less than he does with only a Bachelor’s. I am not unhappy with my job but the people acting like the benefits are some great rarity probably don’t talk to a lot of people who work for other large corporations or well funded NPOs.

Good benefits but a lot taken out of the paycheck for union dues, random stuff and the pension. Many of these new teachers won't make it the years they need to benefit from the pension from which they are contributing too.

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FGDaddio wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the salary for a first year teacher in Arlington with only a bachelors?
What step/grade do you begin?

$53k for 10 months of work is not peanuts.

So you think $33/hour is appropriate pay for your child's teacher. That is peanuts.

Benefits galore.

FGDaddio wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the salary for a first year teacher in Arlington with only a bachelors?
What step/grade do you begin?

$53k for 10 months of work is not peanuts.

So you think $33/hour is appropriate pay for your child's teacher. That is peanuts.

Benefits galore.

Anonymous wrote:Why are you asking this question here and not going to the websites of the respective school systems?

Honestly, if you're this lazy then we don't need you. Please go find a job doing something else. We have our hands full with taking care of real children, and we don't need to be responsible for adults acting like children.

A Teacher

While the wording is ruder than it needs to be, I completely agree with the sentiment. I am an experienced teacher and am sick of immature new teachers. I don't think it is just that I am getting older--the more recent batches of teachers have been uniquely helpless and clueless. Every teacher I know, and not just in my own school, talks about all the drama that is caused by the newer teachers who don't seem to think anything is their job. It isn't all of them. In fact, the biggest clashes are between the competent young teachers and the incompetent young teachers. Someone who thinks asking on this board is a good way to find out salary information needs some time to grow and mature before taking over a classroom. Be an assistant, go for a masters, work another job--but don't take a classroom if you are this clueless.

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Not unless the person also holds a teaching certification, which requires a certain amount of student teaching and/or classroom observation.



While less common than it once was, I still see teachers with just the bachelor’s, especially in K-2. Some universities still offer a major in elementary ed.

They still need to be certified as well. If they majored in education, then student teaching and certification testing was probably rolled into their degree.

Yes, teacher certification can be part of the bachelor's degree. You do not need a Masters degree to become a certified teacher.

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Not unless the person also holds a teaching certification, which requires a certain amount of student teaching and/or classroom observation.



While less common than it once was, I still see teachers with just the bachelor’s, especially in K-2. Some universities still offer a major in elementary ed.

They still need to be certified as well. If they majored in education, then student teaching and certification testing was probably rolled into their degree.

I only have a bachelors. Teach hs. Starting year 7. 66k

Can’t complain. Crypto and coaching youth sports puts me at 120k. I’m chilling.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the salary for a first year teacher in Arlington with only a bachelors?
What step/grade do you begin?

$53,280
Step A if you have no experience
All of this information is available on the APS website.

How does that compare to Fairfax and DC? Regardless think it's too low.

It's not much different from salaries for other new grads in non-STEM fields, particularly when you take school breaks into account.

Yes, it's actually pretty good if you're just graduating from college. The problem is it stagnates big time.

The OP never said they weren't certified, just that they (or the person they are enquiring for) only hold a bachelor's.

Not unless the person also holds a teaching certification, which requires a certain amount of student teaching and/or classroom observation.



While less common than it once was, I still see teachers with just the bachelor’s, especially in K-2. Some universities still offer a major in elementary ed.

They still need to be certified as well. If they majored in education, then student teaching and certification testing was probably rolled into their degree.

I have a friend that has a PhD that was teaching in FCPS last year. She said that the salaries are roughly the same around the DMV area.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are you asking this question here and not going to the websites of the respective school systems?

Honestly, if you're this lazy then we don't need you. Please go find a job doing something else. We have our hands full with taking care of real children, and we don't need to be responsible for adults acting like children.

A Teacher

I hope you don’t speak to children the same way you speak to adults. You shouldn’t be a teacher with that mouth

LOL. What's wrong with that post? NOTHING.

DP
Seriously. All of the pay scales are easily found online. I know FCPS shows the maximum entry step.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the salary for a first year teacher in Arlington with only a bachelors?
What step/grade do you begin?

$53k for 10 months of work is not peanuts.

So you think $33/hour is appropriate pay for your child's teacher. That is peanuts.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the salary for a first year teacher in Arlington with only a bachelors?
What step/grade do you begin?

$53k for 10 months of work is not peanuts.