A Vanishing Breed
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I thought US teachers were pretty well paid, no?
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I thought US teachers were pretty well paid, no?
@taiwan_girl said in A Vanishing Breed:
I thought US teachers were pretty well paid, no?
Compared to what?
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A US public school teacher’s salary translates to about 12,104 Big Mac sandwiches a year.
A Thai public school teachers’ salary translates to about 3,258 Big Mac sandwiches a year.It looks like the average US public school teacher makes almost 4x more than the average Thai public school teacher after accounting for currency exchange rate and purchase power parity.
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I started teaching at highschool in 1981, retired in 2022. Net income when I retired was appr. 2750€/month.
Wages depend on degree (bachelor/master) and grade you're teaching in.
Loved teaching and interacting with pupils/students. Hated the ever growing interference of authorities and parents.
Enjoying my retirement now
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I am so glad I decided not to teach. I qualified to teach high school maths in 1987. As I finished my tutor asked "Are you really sure you want to do this?" - I was pretty awful at it, and we both knew it.
So I bummed around Europe for a month, and decided that no, I didn't want to do it.
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A US public school teacher’s salary translates to about 12,104 Big Mac sandwiches a year.
A Thai public school teachers’ salary translates to about 3,258 Big Mac sandwiches a year.It looks like the average US public school teacher makes almost 4x more than the average Thai public school teacher after accounting for currency exchange rate and purchase power parity.
@Axtremus said in A Vanishing Breed:
A US public school teacher’s salary translates to about 12,104 Big Mac sandwiches a year.
A Thai public school teachers’ salary translates to about 3,258 Big Mac sandwiches a year.It looks like the average US public school teacher makes almost 4x more than the average Thai public school teacher after accounting for currency exchange rate and purchase power parity.
THree cheers for The Economist's Big Mac Index (BMI?). Fun, but has limitations just like the other BMI.
I do love that the Big Mac Index, at least in the 90s, had predictive power over future exchange rate movements. Im sure they've been arbitraged away by now.
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Increasing teacher salary is good, but where does the money come from?
The below was interesting, and I did not know it.
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How does teacher salary compare with the average worker’s salary in each state?While average teacher pay ranges from around $48,000 in Mississippi to around $88,000 in New York, teachers are paid less than the average employee in nearly every state. Hawaii is the only state where the average teacher pay is higher than the average pay across all professions. Given that just 38.7% of US earners have a bachelor’s degree, the below-average pay of teachers is particularly notable.
UNQUOTEhttps://usafacts.org/articles/teachers-in-the-us-face-low-pay-relative-to-their-level-of-education/
On the positive side for teachers, is that (I believe) that most states still give them a pension. And another positive is that most are on a ten month schedule, right? They have the two months off in the summer?
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Increasing teacher salary is good, but where does the money come from?
The below was interesting, and I did not know it.
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How does teacher salary compare with the average worker’s salary in each state?While average teacher pay ranges from around $48,000 in Mississippi to around $88,000 in New York, teachers are paid less than the average employee in nearly every state. Hawaii is the only state where the average teacher pay is higher than the average pay across all professions. Given that just 38.7% of US earners have a bachelor’s degree, the below-average pay of teachers is particularly notable.
UNQUOTEhttps://usafacts.org/articles/teachers-in-the-us-face-low-pay-relative-to-their-level-of-education/
On the positive side for teachers, is that (I believe) that most states still give them a pension. And another positive is that most are on a ten month schedule, right? They have the two months off in the summer?
@taiwan_girl said in A Vanishing Breed:
On the positive side for teachers, is that (I believe) that most states still give them a pension. And another positive is that most are on a ten month schedule, right? They have the two months off in the summer?
Yeah. They have those two months off.
