Do teachers get paid enough?

Question

I don't think they make enough.

Answer 1

teachers are paid salaries based on the number of days in the school year. That Salary only includes four holidays. The breaks are unpaid. The per hour in school salary ratio is fair, but it does not take into account the number of hours teachers work after school, which could easily add four to six hours to their day. Lets say a beginning teacher makes 30,000 a year ( most make less) If you take the 180 school days x 7 hours a day you get 1260 hours or 23.81 per hour pay. But there is no practical way a teacher only works seven hours. I have 200 students a day , and I need to correct papers, contact parents, attend meetings , do professional developement etc. If I stay after school to help a child it is on my own , I do not get paid for it. So in reality I probably put in closer to 12 hours a day. 180X 12 =2160 which divided into that 30,000 comes to 13.89 an hour. This is for someone who went to college for at least four years, did a semester of unpaid student teaching . I have to get six college credits every five years and pay for my license out of my own pocket. Even the government realizes that teachers buy things for their classrooms that the schools do not reimburse them for. Subtract those costs from a teachers salary and you begin to see they are very underpaid for the education they have. I wonder how many students who graduate with a BA in Business or Computers would be happy with 14 dollars an hour and the responsibility for the education of over 200 people.

Answer 2

Do Teachers Get Paid Enough

Answer 3

If you're looking to be a science teacher in a place where they're needed, you could probably be hired with a provisional license. That would mean you have a certain amount of time to finish coursework to be certified. However, if you are working in a place that really needs you, there's a decent chance they'll pay for it or at least help with the cost. I get paid reasonably well as far as teachers are concerned. I do not have any student loans to pay off, but I do have a bunch of other payments which I have no trouble paying each month. I would say education has a pretty low ceiling on how much you eventually get paid. It doesn't go up a whole lot with years of experience. It's a little bit each year, plus cost of living increase. Last year was my 2nd year of teaching and I was making about $34,000. A colleague of mine was finishing her 40th year of teaching and making something in the mid-fifties I think. So for the difference in years teaching, she really didn't make a whole lot more than me. The only real way to make pretty good money in education is to get a masters in administration or something like that which will move you up the ladder, so to speak. However, I don't think I would consider administration worth it just for the money. It seems like a much more difficult and unpleasant job than teaching. Even though the pay isn't great if you are thinking of becoming a science teacher I would highly recommend it. There is a lack of good science teachers out there, and it's really important that kids learn to love science. It will never happen, though, without a decent teacher to get them interested in it. Good luck with your decision. Hope any of this helped.

Answer 4

If you think teachers get paid enough think abou this....

Where else can you have somone come into your place of work and tell you they know more about what you are doing than you... who has at least a ba and more thank likely a masters, and call you all sorts of names and suggest ridiculous things...


Get treated worse than a dumpster behind 7-11, by kids, and parents alike. spend more time babysitting and molding kids today than most parents- Most kids spend more time with their teachers than they will with their parents.Sad but true.

Get 3 months off? not so much nowadays, in your summer you are going to continued education classes, or prepping for the next year most of it. Then when the school year is in you are woking 18 hour days----easily.

And on top of all that, you are not only expected to know your subject but most about everything. You don't only teach your subject, you spend countless hours helping with other subjects, or letting kids vent.

If you could put a different title instead of teacher it should be GURU because no other job are you expected so much of, and to know so much about. You are a counselor, supporter, coach, life skills teacher, motivator... so many countless others... just a thought;)

no teachers are not paid enough.... not even close....

Answer 5

As a teacher in the public school system I would have to say no. Depending upon where you live the amount you are paid is different but the cost of living is also different.

I always look at it this way... Pro-sport players get paid millions of dollars for playing a sport they love/enjoy. Teachers get paid an average of $30,000-$45,000 a year. (Some do get paid more...) Teachers work hard and for the most part year round. They deal with many issues, paperwork, etc...with no "people" to help. Those players would not be where they are without having teachers. I feel that teachers are the basis for almost any job. We teach the basics and then some teach specific skills/concepts.

Shouldn't teachers be paid a lot more money to deal with what we deal with? Seriously we deal with paperwork, behavior issues, difficult parents, co-workers, administration, the public, etc...

Answer 6

hehehe I love the they only work 9 months line. Hmmmm yes this summer I have done nothing school related and I only work the 7.5 hours a day in my contract and the 185 days that i am paid for that is it. Heck I even stand up in conferences and sorry but my contract is up and never attend back t school because that is way outside my contract.

Ok Ok honest answer yes and no. Yes for the time of our contract and the hours we are supposed to work considering benefits absolutely we are paid most excellently..............for the world no not at all.......as professionals that have master degrees in most cases that continue training every year and who work well beyond scheduled hours and put all that we are into it and are only ALLOWED to work 9 months a year we are being given the pineapple from little nicky. Summer jobs where students are our bosses making $5.25 and hour and competing with the our students to get the job so we can try and get ahead while I would gladly go into school and teach my classes if I was paid those additional days. I am loosing $11,000 a year because I only get wot work 9 months a year. I get three weeks vacation and never work a major holiday let me enjoy hell for the extra money the $600 a month in health insurance would suck a little less and the fact that every meeting starts out with me having to prove that I know what I am doing and they fact billy is failing has everything to do with the fact that he is missing 30 out of 38 assignments and not that I suck at teaching would be more tolerable or the fact that parents ask for meetings at 4:00 and my 7.5 I get paid for ends at 3:00 and the conference doesn't end until 5:30 would seem fine or my favorite the parent that sends billy to school with strep throat and pink eye because he needs to be there since he already missed 9 days going to the mall or the lake and I get exposed to every illness there is would be alright.

If we worked what we were paid for it would be fine but since I care and try to do what is best for my students every day before school, after school and on break I guess it could be better.........will I quit teaching.......... hell no I have way to much fun and last week at dinner the waitress ran over and gave me a hug and told me she starts dental school in August and it was my chemistry class that taught her she could do anything that makes it worth doing besides I always find cool summer jobs.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

It depends on what you teach. If you teach grades Pre K-6, you definitely don't get paid enough! If you teach Math, English, Science, Social Studies, Reading, or Special Education, then you definitely don't get paid enough. Maybe band directors, art teachers, and other resource teachers get paid enough.

Answer 9

Are you talking about public school teachers? If so, no they don't get paid enough. Teaching is a hard profession.

Answer 10

I think the make enough. They get great benefits and summers off. What more could they ask for