Dr. Racket wrote:
Fat hurts wrote:
If you have a PhD as a classroom teacher then it's not unusual to make 100k. But PhD's are very rare in a K-12 public school.
Maybe at a private school, maybe. Even then, the PhD is probably a retired industry professional who worked 30 years and now wants to teach.
100k would be like tenured professor salary, depending on the department and school of course.
At my wife's school, it's a mixture.
For those with PhD's, some are retired industry professionals like you mention. A few are retired professors. Some still teach at both the college and high school level. And some just like teaching younger kids, so they chose teaching high school instead of staying in academia.
Some have PhD's in education and have never worked outside a classroom at all. These are typically the PhD's who teach younger kids.