# Teachers salaries **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [April 1, 2008, 4:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/teachers-salaries/196524 "2008-04-01T16:04:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 19
**Author:** ![TavisB](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tavisb/32/3339_2.png) [@TavisB](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TavisB)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 6:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/teachers-salaries/196524/19 "2008-04-02T06:46:35Z")
> [@lancaster 9/22/07 saturday](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lancaster-9-22-07-saturday/35490/54): > > I always liked this: > Teachers’ hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or 10 months a year! It’s time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do - baby sit! > We can get that for less than minimum wage. That’s right. Let’s give them $3.00 an hour and only the hours they worked; not any of that silly planning time, or any time they spend before or after school. That would be $19.50 a day (7:45 to 3:00 PM with 45 min. off for lunch and plan – that equals 6 1/2 hours). Each parent should pay $19.50 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children. > Now how many do they teach in day…maybe 30? So that’s $19.50 x 30 = $585.00 a day. However, remember they only work 180 days a year!!! I am not going to pay them for any vacations - LET’S SEE… That’s $585 X 180= $105,300 per year. What about those special education teachers and the ones with Master’s degrees? Well, we could pay them minimum wage ($7.75), and just to be fair, round it off to $8.00 an hour. That would be $8 X 6 1/2 hours X 30 children X 180 days = $280,800 per year. > Wait a minute – there’s something wrong here! > The average teacher’s salary (nation wide) is $50,000. $50,000/180 days = $277.77/per day/30 students=$9.25/6.5 hours = $1.42 per hour per student --a very inexpensive baby-sitter (and they even EDUCATE your kids!). > WHAT A DEAL… Haha…i like that too 🙂 --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/teachers-salaries/196524)._