Here average teacher salary is over $100k. Projected to be $120k by 2027 due to their new union contract.

Newbie teachers start around $70k last I checked, and hit six figures in 5-6 years.

This is roughly double median salaries.

That said, I think they earn every bit of it even with "summers off" and their relatively lucrative benefit packages. The work environment is utter shit. Basically zero ability to manage a classroom and get rid of any shitheads - with very little supportive parenting or administration having your back. Even if salaries were $500k/yr I wouldn't remotely consider taking such a job.

Pay itself though? Not an issue for one of the worst performing major urban school districts in the nation.