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Re:‘Exhausted and underpaid’: teachers across the US are lea... by dnissley on Sunday October 10, 2021 @10:01PM (#28823856)
Having lived in Indiana for most of my life, and knowing folks who are teachers there still, I can vouch for the first statement.

Not so much the second though -- yes, these high salaries are in HCOL areas, but I'm not aware of crazy amount of competition to be a teacher even with those salaries. I'm now in Chicago, where teachers fresh out of college fetch about $60k in my district, and there's always plenty of openings.

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Re:‘Exhausted and underpaid’: teachers across the US are lea... by moeris on Sunday October 10, 2021 @10:16PM (#28823942)
It's definitely different depending on the state. In part because some states issue more teaching certificates per year. Michigan is one of those. At the time I was teaching, in around 2017, I had a friend get a job in Novi (Metro Detroit). The competition was pretty intense. See for example, [this posting](https://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/novi-community-s...) which had over 900 applicants.

It took me over a year after graduation to get a job, and I had applied to over 130 postings. I ended up finally getting a job in an inner city school.

The situation could very well have been very different in Chicago, though, depending on a lot of factors.

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