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 dr_dshiv on Sunday June 20, 2021 @04:03AM (#27568082)

Average salary for teachers is $63k, across all states. In NY or CA, it is about $85k [1]. This does not include benefits (e.g., health care or a ~$50k/y pension for retirement at age 60 [2])

And there are 2.5 months in the summer for r&r or for working additional jobs [3]. You need two wage earners to be solidly middle class, but this is not a "grossly underpaid" profession. For comparison, a university engineering professor salary in Netherlands starts at 65k euros ($77k).

Bottomline: teaching is not going to make you rich but you aren't grossly underpaid.

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d20/tables/dt20_211.60.a... [2] https://www.teacherpensions.org/states [3] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2019/07/11/tea...

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Sunday June 20, 2021 @10:25AM (#27570319)

This. I keep hearing about undepaid teachers, but in my immediate social circle this is simply not true from avg. hh US perspective.

Naturally, statement like that usually then gets attacked as 'but not enough'. Based on results alone, CPS teachers are actually paid too much.

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