I just looked up the salaries of my former public high school teachers. Seriously WTF!!!!

So, are you going to be a teacher?

Starting salary in New York City is $30 - $35K after deductions. Average rent for an apartment is $32K They're not exactly living the high-life.

Ah, I knew we were missing something before April comes. The required monthly "teacher-bashing" thread?

In words of Joker, here we go!

In 2012 our local high school teachers averaged $106,000 per year. They were offered pay raises which were twice the rate of inflation, but they still went on strike and shut the school down. When teachers complain that they don't get enough respect, I remind them that this is the kind of crap they support. People who do this don't deserve any respect.

Don't forget about the pensions. Teacher's salaries get boosted for the last few years before they retire so that their base pension payout jumps way above what they really deserve to get. It's a scam that's killing State and local budgets throughout the country.

DiscoGary wrote:

In 2012 our local high school teachers averaged $106,000 per year. They were offered pay raises which were twice the rate of inflation, but they still went on strike and shut the school down.

Please provide the name of the school district.

AVERAGED $106,000 per year? I'd really like to see that documented as well as the average for all teachers in that district NOT including administrator's salaries.

Illinois District 115.

Of course teachers pay federal taxes. They don't pay SS taxes, but then they don't receive SS benefits.

HRE wrote:

AVERAGED $106,000 per year? I'd really like to see that documented as well as the average for all teachers in that district NOT including administrator's salaries.

I looked it up.

2% of teachers make more than 6 figures in total compensation.

HRE wrote:

AVERAGED $106,000 per year? I'd really like to see that documented as well as the average for all teachers in that district NOT including administrator's salaries.

That was without administrators salaries. Go ahead and run the numbers yourself. Let us know what you get.

Lake Forest District 115

Total compensation is not the same as salaries and doesn't really tell you what a typical teacher in that district earns. But good for them.

1. 1.6% of teachers in New Jersey, the most expensive state in the union, earn $100k:

http://www.northjersey.com/news/a-hot-spot-for-higher-teacher-earnings-1.336376?page=all

For those of you still learning to tie a tie yourself, this isn't a lot of money anyway.

2. Teachers pay federal taxes the same as anyone else does.

Are there any other lies we need to address today?

Randy Oldman wrote:

HRE wrote:

AVERAGED $106,000 per year? I'd really like to see that documented as well as the average for all teachers in that district NOT including administrator's salaries.

I looked it up.

2% of teachers make more than 6 figures in total compensation.

Yeah, well then, the teachers in my town are the 1% ers..... and they went on strike and shut down the school. Actually, they tried to shut down the school. The Board kept the school open and they held fake classes for state and federal funding purposes.

I'm not making this up.

You talk about teachers like they are some sort of unskilled labor. The fact of the matter is that many teachers are very well educated and have made a very big sacrifice by staying out of the private sector. English teachers could be lawyers and make many times more. Biology/Chemistry could be doctors or scientists and make very big dollars and, in the case of some doctors, work lighter schedules. Even your loud mouth PE coach could work his way up into management at a car dealership and make a lot more money. And in all those private sector jobs, no one ever has to worry whether the class misfit is going to come to school and shoot everyone or have to spend an hour on the phone with angry parents every nigh when you give their little Einstein a B+ instead of an A-. And in all the private sector jobs, you can pretty much come and go when you need to. Kid gets sick? Leave early. But not when you are a teacher. Need to meet a contractor at your house to look at a broken sewer line, no problem as long as you are not a teacher.

I've heard about those monstrous salaries from people in the Chicagoland area too.

And get this - those glorified babysitters get summers off too.

Really, then you need to come to my town. teachers teach 4 blocks a day. The gym teachers are the worst, cancel classes to workout or leave for dentist appointments etc., schedule planning periods for first block so they can come in late or last block so they can leave early, gym class at the HS level is a joke to begin with.

Can any of the teachers in Lake Forest District 115 making $106k afford a house in the district?

Precious Roy wrote:

Biology/Chemistry could be doctors or scientists and make very big dollars

The average salary for an experienced mid-level research scientist is about $70K.

NJ Possible wrote:

Are there any other lies we need to address today?

Yes! Let's stop it with the 'Jamin has a job offer' charade already, okay?