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@rskrause

You must be working in the wrong district. I pay taxes in the Williamsville Central SD. Mean teacher salary is currently $60,280y. Benefits are ~35%. So, total with benes is ~$81,000/y. The school year is 180 days. So, figuring 8h/d the teachers here make on average ~$56/h with benefits included. That’s ~$450/8h day. If they worked what most people work (48 weeks) it would be equivalent to $108,000. My hourly rate isn’t much more than theirs, and I work under incredible stress nights, weekends, and holidays. Many of you probably work a lot harder for a lot less. How much do you want them to make?

A Master’s in Education is the easiest graduate degree offerred. And most teachers aren’t very good at it (look at the results). But as long as they don’t molest the kids, they get tenure in three years and then it’s the gravy train all the way. Work 3/4 time for an average of $60,000/year and retire after 30y with a handsome pension, sounds pretty sweet, eh? Sure, teachers in this area need more money (not).

In the interests of fairness, there are states where teachers are underpaid. This is not one of them. The state mean is $55,181.

First off you must consider that any teacher making that kind of green has been there for years. And you have to include NYC teachers who get paid more based on cost of living in the city. Your average starting salary in this state is around 33k with a bachelors and 35k with a masters.

You won’t find any teacher hired in the last 7-10 years making that kind of money or having those kind of benefits. Also there has been a huge retirment in the schools systems over the past 3 years so I would imagine your figure is wrong as long as you don’t include NYC.

If you don’t believe me take a look.

http://www.ub-careers.buffalo.edu/nfcpa/trd/ensalary07.html

And how the fuck do you know how easy or hard it is to get a masters in education? Have you gone to school for one?

I don’t tell you how much you should make don’t tell me how much I should. You don’t know shit about the work thats involved in becoming a teacher in NYS. Or how stressful the job can be. A large portion of education majors drop out because they think its a cake job. Its not. Untill you have 120+ students that your responcible for, each with thier own problems and parents, don’t come sprouting off how easy it is or it for people who don’t want to do work.

You want to blame someone for taxes, blame NYC, the state aid that our region gets is minimal because off the bullshit in NYC.