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Some US teachers will return to in-person schooling in the upcoming weeks, and some school districts have already started the school year.
These are the states where public school teachers made the highest average salaries in the 2018-2019 academic year, all of which are greater than the US average pay for teachers of $61,730.
What would be very interesting is to know the shape of the distribution and spread. Is the mean representative or skewed? How does it translate into hourly or to FTE pay?
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It makes a lot of sense, when you see that they are either in high-cost states or those where it's hard to attract people (Michigan and Alaska). Even with our state (WA) being #6, average $72,965 teachers cannot afford to buy a home in the Seattle area without a well-paid working spouse.
Some US teachers will return to in-person schooling in the upcoming weeks, and some school districts have already started the school year.
These are the states where public school teachers made the highest average salaries in the 2018-2019 academic year, all of which are greater than the US average pay for teachers of $61,730.
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Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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Interesting stuff. I see that San Francisco is 25.73% higher than here, and I would need to make about $25k more than I do to go back there. I wouldn’t try it for less than $100k more, that seems to low.
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I put in my son's teacher pay of $ 70,000 in the Omaha area and at Hemlock140's San Francisco he'd need to make more than $ 135,000 just to stay even. This kind of skews the utilizing of the same teaching stats to be used for the entire country. You know, based on what I hear of as to housing in San Francisco, I almost expected it to be an even bigger gap.
It makes a lot of sense, when you see that they are either in high-cost states or those where it's hard to attract people (Michigan and Alaska). Even with our state (WA) being #6, average $72,965 teachers cannot afford to buy a home in the Seattle area without a well-paid working spouse.
Michigan is not due to hard to attract (it's not, hundreds if not thousands of teachers graduate from Michigan colleges every year). It's due to a century of pro-teacher and pro-union government - up until the DeVos' got some power and cut school funding around the turn of the century
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It makes a lot of sense, when you see that they are either in high-cost states or those where it's hard to attract people (Michigan and Alaska). Even with our state (WA) being #6, average $72,965 teachers cannot afford to buy a home in the Seattle area without a well-paid working spouse.
Fortunately Washington State is a LOT bigger than Seattle. (Seattle = <5% of land mass ~ 50% of population)
It's the case about anywhere... you need to know the +/- of each location.
Wyoming is a great place to teach, but don't expect to live in Jackson Hole on teacher wages.
Fortunately Washington State is a LOT bigger than Seattle. (Seattle = <5% of land mass ~ 50% of population)
It's the case about anywhere... you need to know the +/- of each location. Wyoming is a great place to teach, but don't expect to live in Jackson Hole on teacher wages.
Good analogy. The state of Wyoming did make a special arrangement for teachers from Teton County and Jackson Hole exactly because of the reason you just stated.
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In 42 states and the District of Columbia, teachers make less than the average salary. That includes Wyoming, where teachers average $58,618, compared to the state’s average salary of $60,252.
Those numbers don’t apply to Teton County, however, because the state’s school-funding system sets a base salary for teachers then bumps it up for things like master’s degrees, professional certifications and cost-of-living adjustments. Teton County School District No. 1 was allotted such an adjustment this year of 157% to help teachers afford to live in the most expensive county in the state.
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