Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2021

Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by jliptzin on Saturday June 19, 2021 @10:06PM (#27566436)

I would say it’s the opposite. Vacation time has more incremental value the longer it goes on. Even a 2 week vacation I’d have trouble fully unwinding from. An entire summer, you can truly have some quality time to yourself to recharge, focus on a hobby, travel a lot, etc. I would say those summers off are easily worth $100k.

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by mattkrause on Sunday June 20, 2021 @08:22AM (#27569327)

It’s tricky.

Taking things to an obviously absurd extreme, being unemployed is clearly not worth $400k/year: people work for far, far less.

As you say, longer blocks of vacation time definitely open up new possibilities, but perhaps there’s an inflection point: an 11-week trip seems like it’d be very nearly the same as a 10 week one.

Things get weird when much of the total comp is in benefits. For example, if your cash salary is $50k, that limits what you can do with your $100k “worth” of vacation.

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by toast0 on Saturday June 19, 2021 @10:58PM (#27566724)

Too bad it's vacation time when everyone else is having vacation, so everything is crowded.

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by makeitdouble on Sunday June 20, 2021 @08:03AM (#27569237)

The saving grace is that it’s synchro with your kids’ vacations.

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