You have no idea how well quite a few public teachers are paid versus the pay at non-elite colleges/universities. At least it seems like that. At the school district I lived in when I still lived in MI, entry level teachers with a BA/BS (way more with the BA) started at $42K+. If they taught there for 20 years and got an EdD on the way, …
You have no idea how well quite a few public teachers are paid versus the pay at non-elite colleges/universities. At least it seems like that. At the school district I lived in when I still lived in MI, entry level teachers with a BA/BS (way more with the BA) started at $42K+. If they taught there for 20 years and got an EdD on the way, they got over $100K. Plus an incredibly generous benefits package and the ability to retire on a full pension as age 55 if they had 25 years in. [This was later modified to 403b, but that money was not theirs but taxpayers, at around 10% of their salaries.]
Two HS teachers with EdD easily would 'make' $250K/year plus benefits of at least 35% of that more in benefits.
My Full Professor colleagues made about the same, but the benefits ran around 20-25%.
You have no idea how well quite a few public teachers are paid versus the pay at non-elite colleges/universities. At least it seems like that. At the school district I lived in when I still lived in MI, entry level teachers with a BA/BS (way more with the BA) started at $42K+. If they taught there for 20 years and got an EdD on the way, they got over $100K. Plus an incredibly generous benefits package and the ability to retire on a full pension as age 55 if they had 25 years in. [This was later modified to 403b, but that money was not theirs but taxpayers, at around 10% of their salaries.]
Two HS teachers with EdD easily would 'make' $250K/year plus benefits of at least 35% of that more in benefits.
My Full Professor colleagues made about the same, but the benefits ran around 20-25%.
Chicago Public School teachers w/just a BA get $80K+ with a few years' seniority. So no surprise there.
Adjust professors are basically indentured servants.