[OC] Durchschnittliches Lehrergehalt des US-Bundesstaates 2023-24

It’s wild that the average teacher makes over $100k in CA but the starting salary for a tenure track professor at Berkeley is only $80k

Mississippi seems to always be last in everything.

And then Oklahoma was like, anyone coming from New York or California has to take a woke test, as if anyone is leaving those states for literal fucking Oklahoma.

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Wtf I’m nowhere near 60k in NM

I left my software job to teach in a public school for four years. It was incredibly rewarding and I still occasionally run students of mine and it feels great to hear them talk about what they learned in my class and how it has helped them in their later education and careers.

Having said that, I think I have a unique perspective in having worked in a professional situation where you I was well compensated and treated with respect, then become a public school teacher, then gone back to software. As a teacher, I worked 2x harder than I ever have in software for a fraction of the pay and support . I used to take sick days so I could get through the dozens of hours of grading it took to give kids the feedback they needed to improve. I had 35 students per class and trying to give differentiated instruction and just maintain order was often difficult.

Teachers should be among the highest paid people in our society. It should be a job that has incredible competition because people want the high pay and benefits. That we pay teachers so poorly in this country is an indictment of our values.

A shame they don’t have the median available

My first teaching job in AZ was $39k

Oh I thought it was just K-12, but I know specialized high school teachers (such as languages, econ, psychology, etc.) can earn over 100k a year, but it’s going to only be towards the end of their careers. It sounds like it also includes the university level.

The most depressing thing I learned, thanks to how conservatives weaponized pay transparency against teachers, is that my first job out of school made more than my thesis advisor, she worked at that school for decades, lives in a tiny little apartment, and pretty much has nothing as that is all she can afford.

Uhhh who are they polling? Wa state teachers do not make that much. Not the vast majority

Salary adjusted for purchasing power would be better.

This should be compared to avg. cost of living. And maybe presented as a ratio per state

I feel like California, New York, and Massachusetts should come with an asterisk because of the high volume of university professors. They are skewing the average by an incredible margin.

Median income for the state of Mississippi is around $54k so that honestly doesn’t seem that terrible

I assume California, with its highest paid teachers, is number 1 in all educational benchmarks. Oh wait. They are below average

California teachers are overpaid for their results

I shit you not, Oklahoma teachers rallied against their own raises.

Now do it for cost of living

Now do it relative to cost of living.

This gets worse when you cinsoder that „average“ includes the 25+ year veteran teachers.