alt Hacker NewsTeaching salaries start at $48,112 on average. If schools want advanced degrees the industry needs to pay more, and that's beyond whatever adjustment the provide for holding an advanced degree.
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Well, the way you get instant raises in the public school system is by completing more advanced degrees
They're already paid better than adjunct professors or grad students which is the normal career path for people with advanced degrees.
Most public K-12 teachers teach 9 months out of the year. So annualizing that salary gets you to $64,149. Supposing a two income household of two teachers earning that amount ($128,299), the household would be earning a good bit above the median household income of $83,730.
this. there's almost no fiscal incentive to even BE a teacher, let alone a well-educated one.
When you overpay teachers, people who hate teaching, and hate being teachers, will become teachers for the money.
Is a good idea to select the people who hate teaching to become teachers?
All things considered, it's much better than it's made out to be.
Teaching is pretty stable, offers pensions, unionized, yearly adjusted for CPI, opportunities to increase pay schedule + extra pay with extra curriculars / duties, lots of time off, good hours.
Don't get me wrong. There are issues and it does depend on the district (US).
Now the aides..