Teachers in my school district in CA work schedules that rotate between 4 hour days & 6 hour days. At most that is 26 hours / week (MWF 6 hrs/day & TR 4 hrs/day). There is also the occasional teacher/department meeting, but the district shortens Wednesdays class schedule for the students & substitutes that time with a teacher on teacher meeting.
In essence, teachers aren't working >30 hr a week. They get 2 weeks winter break, 1 week spring break, ~2.5 month summer, most every Monday holiday off. So they work about 9 months a year.
On top of that, they receive the amazing lifetime CA Pension which is like 90% of your top 5 earning years.
I looked up my teacher's salaries from high school. They make more than my CA public university STEM professors make.
About 5 years into teaching, a high school teacher will make about 60k/year regular + 25k/year in benefits. Tenured will make 120k+ in base and benefits. That is pretty good for an average of 25 hour workweek, 9 months a year.
Nothing stopping them getting another job that works between the hours of 3-10pm during the school year, putting them closer to the hours a GS analyst would work.
> Nothing stopping them getting another job that works between the hours of 3-10pm during the school year
You don't think they just go home and do nothing at 3pm, do you? They still have to grade the work and plan the lessons.
My wife was a teacher. She generally worked from 7:30am till 8pm, sometimes as late as 10pm. I would usually drop her off, go to my engineering job, and then go back to her school where I would spend a few hours hanging out helping her or working or watching TV while she kept working.
And in the summer they spend a bunch of time prepping for the next year and learning new things at conferences.
Anyone who thinks that teachers only work 25 hours a week 9 months a year are sorely mistaken. She definitely did more hours than I did at my engineering job, despite the fact that I made more than 4X her salary.
In essence, teachers aren't working >30 hr a week. They get 2 weeks winter break, 1 week spring break, ~2.5 month summer, most every Monday holiday off. So they work about 9 months a year.
On top of that, they receive the amazing lifetime CA Pension which is like 90% of your top 5 earning years.
I looked up my teacher's salaries from high school. They make more than my CA public university STEM professors make.
About 5 years into teaching, a high school teacher will make about 60k/year regular + 25k/year in benefits. Tenured will make 120k+ in base and benefits. That is pretty good for an average of 25 hour workweek, 9 months a year.
Nothing stopping them getting another job that works between the hours of 3-10pm during the school year, putting them closer to the hours a GS analyst would work.