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Posted on 5/3/18 at 12:59 pm
Posted on 5/3/18 at 12:59 pm
In Georgia, the average public school teacher salary is $54,602.
A two teacher household yields an average household income of $109,204.
This puts you in the top 20% of income earners in the state.
With Summers off.
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A two teacher household yields an average household income of $109,204.
This puts you in the top 20% of income earners in the state.
With Summers off.
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Posted on 5/3/18 at 1:07 pm to DaveyDownerDawg
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So are they overpaid?
I'm not offering an opinion. I'm just presenting the numbers.
I'm looking forward to the rest of you offering opinions.
Posted on 5/3/18 at 2:28 pm to deeprig9
I am graduating next Wednesday with a degree in Physical education I also have my certificate in special education as well, teacher pay has always been a hot topic in my opinion teachers make a very decent living if they have a masters degree. You can make a good living just off of a bachelors degree but it takes many years to get your pay up to a good level. I plan on getting my masters in the next few years. Also will coach high school football, the fact that I will only work 195 days out follow the year at the most and receive decent benefits I will not complain one bit what I get paid
Posted on 5/3/18 at 2:32 pm to socrow
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certificate in special education
Step 1. Complete!
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I plan on getting my masters in the next few years.
Step 2. Do it immediately. Special Ed. You will get a job starting in the 70's but obviously you have to deal with special people all day every day and may eventually burn you out and your degrees will be worthless outside of that field.
Posted on 5/3/18 at 2:47 pm to deeprig9
Not correct. My wife has been teaching SpEd for 6 years with a masters and specialist in that field and doesn’t make near 70K
Posted on 5/3/18 at 2:50 pm to deeprig9
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In Georgia, the average public school teacher salary is $54,602.
I"m not saying anything one way or another about whether that's high/low/fair/whatever, but that's higher than I would have expected. The biggest gripe you typically hear from teachers is typically how underpaid they are but 54K is pretty damn solid for that kind of job, I would think.
Posted on 5/3/18 at 2:56 pm to WG_Dawg
Its way too much for the quality of work you get from a lot of them, but the ones that do it well should be paid that many times over. It is one of the most important jobs in our society but we let complete idiots run a classroom and then the teachers who give a damn are run off or go find greener pastures in another field.
Posted on 5/3/18 at 3:05 pm to Hobnail
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. It is one of the most important jobs in our society but we let complete idiots run a classroom and then the teachers who give a damn are run off
I completely and totally agree. What can be done about it?
Posted on 5/3/18 at 3:19 pm to WG_Dawg
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What can be done about it?
Good wages and incentives that entice competent and qualified educators to want to work in public education as opposed to less stressful, higher paying jobs elsewhere. Obviously we can't pay all teachers 6 figures, though any teacher making a real positive impact on our children deserves that much. However you CAN improve the terms of employment in giving more teachers control over discipline, testing, parent interactions, etc. I have 3 family members who quit the teaching profession, 2 of whom gladly took lower paying jobs, just to escape the red tape and all that crap that is pushed on them.
Posted on 5/3/18 at 3:28 pm to Hobnail
If you're teaching for 9 months at $54k the comparable 12 month position is $72k, just assuming standard pay. Not too shabby.
Also - they get pensions.
Also - they get pensions.
Posted on 5/3/18 at 3:50 pm to Hobnail
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Good wages and incentives that entice competent and qualified educators to want to work in public education as opposed to less stressful, higher paying jobs elsewhere.
Sorry,the schools of education at most Universities are
perhaps the easiest of all degrees to obtain.If you want to pay em that much make it MUCH harder to get a
teaching degree or have higher pay scale for teachers who go to better colleges.
Posted on 5/3/18 at 3:53 pm to DawgCountry
Well my friend was making 90 in the field, special ed, public school in metro atl before he quit to pursue another career.
Does your wife work in poor rural area?
It could also be negotiating power. My friend worked his way up to that by hopping jobs from one county to another, aggresively pursuing higher pay. Many women make less than men because they don’t do that as much.
Does your wife work in poor rural area?
It could also be negotiating power. My friend worked his way up to that by hopping jobs from one county to another, aggresively pursuing higher pay. Many women make less than men because they don’t do that as much.
Posted on 5/3/18 at 3:56 pm to deeprig9
My wife has been teaching for 18 years with a masters and makes like 55. A lot of teachers get a specialist or doctorate towards the end just ahead of Georgia teacher retirement. Some of those salaries maybe skewing the numbers just a little bit.
Posted on 5/3/18 at 4:06 pm to deeprig9
Cobb. And I know she makes more than most teachers in the school at least. Usually people making that much don’t have a planning period and are coaches too
Posted on 5/3/18 at 5:15 pm to RD Dawg
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Sorry,the schools of education at most Universities are
perhaps the easiest of all degrees to obtain.If you want to pay em that much make it MUCH harder to get a
teaching degree or have higher pay scale for teachers who go to better colleges.
Also, at most schools, the students in the school of education are by far the least academically gifted. We all knew the C-students in high school who thought their teachers were the most intelligent people in the universe.
I thought my teachers were idiots who skated by on their time served.
Posted on 5/3/18 at 5:42 pm to RD Dawg
Completely depends on the school, man. At most, yeah they’re not there with the STEM majors. But where my wife went, GCSU, their admission standards were absolutely nuts.
This post was edited on 5/3/18 at 5:43 pm
Posted on 5/3/18 at 5:43 pm to AmsterdamNYCDawg
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pensions
This puts it over the top. Find another job where you’ll get guaranteed health benefits and 100% of salary after 30 years. I know people that retire in their 50’s with no real fear of going broke. The rest of us save a whole lifetime and if you’re lucky get to phase back in your 60’s and pray you don’t run out of $$.
Also, teaching is the best 2nd job imaginable because your schedule and the school schedule are the same....no day care.
If I had it to do over I’d be a teacher, marry a teacher, and be planning my world travel plans for when I turn 55.
This post was edited on 5/3/18 at 5:44 pm
Posted on 5/3/18 at 5:50 pm to Rules
Teacher pay is often a combination of 2 things.
1) colleges spit out more teachers than positions are available. There isn't a teacher shortage. There is a quality (often more experienced) teacher shortage. Supply and demand keeps the starting pay very low.
2) some counties are richer than others and can pilfer experienced teachers with better pay.
As for salaries, starting pay is usually pretty low (a lot of times, it may be a private school or smaller county that is doing most of the hiring for fresh teachers).
As for pensions.. that isn't a perk. If I'm not mistaken, most teachers are not eligible for social security. It is just their version.
As for hours... teachers in my community have the worst hours. You may believe that they get 7 weeks off a year. But many teachers are pulling 12 hour days (particularly at the middle school and high school levels). If a sport has an away game, you are looking at 14-16 hour days.
Teaching is a rough lifestyle and I have all of the respect in the world for them. I personally blame the majority of our education problems on parenting. For too many, they believe teachers are responsible for parenting our kids.
1) colleges spit out more teachers than positions are available. There isn't a teacher shortage. There is a quality (often more experienced) teacher shortage. Supply and demand keeps the starting pay very low.
2) some counties are richer than others and can pilfer experienced teachers with better pay.
As for salaries, starting pay is usually pretty low (a lot of times, it may be a private school or smaller county that is doing most of the hiring for fresh teachers).
As for pensions.. that isn't a perk. If I'm not mistaken, most teachers are not eligible for social security. It is just their version.
As for hours... teachers in my community have the worst hours. You may believe that they get 7 weeks off a year. But many teachers are pulling 12 hour days (particularly at the middle school and high school levels). If a sport has an away game, you are looking at 14-16 hour days.
Teaching is a rough lifestyle and I have all of the respect in the world for them. I personally blame the majority of our education problems on parenting. For too many, they believe teachers are responsible for parenting our kids.
This post was edited on 5/3/18 at 5:51 pm
Posted on 5/3/18 at 5:53 pm to deeprig9
I'd like to get paid more but even then there are many things before pay that annoy me. Most of them are crap we have to do that have nothing to do with the kids education.
My biggest beef on the pay front is more on the coaching side, I wish my district would catch to a bunch of other districts, and add days to our contracts for all the extra workouts, 7 on 7, camps, and other stuff we do as a staff during the summer. That said if they told me tomorrow I wasn't needed to coach ball I'd find another place to coach or do some other career. I'm not teaching without football.
My biggest beef on the pay front is more on the coaching side, I wish my district would catch to a bunch of other districts, and add days to our contracts for all the extra workouts, 7 on 7, camps, and other stuff we do as a staff during the summer. That said if they told me tomorrow I wasn't needed to coach ball I'd find another place to coach or do some other career. I'm not teaching without football.
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