That sounds like a good annual salary for working an 8-hour day, nine months a year, with long winter and spring breaks. But to get an hourly amount, you would have to figure out how many hours are spent, not just in the classroom, but preparing lesson plans, attending required faculty meetings, continuing education classes, "meet-the-teacher" nights, grading papers in the evening, and everything else that is required. A beginning teacher will be lucky to earn $10 for every hour.
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Let's revise the math with a look at Behind the Scenes and from a 25-year professional educator----
The original calculation of teachers earning approximately $10 per hour is perhaps more accurate when the additional time spent outside of the classroom is taken into consideration. Educators are usually working between 10-18 hours a day depending upon the level of students they teach, the number of extra assignments they are given, and the outside activities for which they are often required to "make an appearance." Unlike many "jobs" that allow the professional to walk away at the end of an 8 hour shift, educators often work well beyond the regular 8-hour day and are actively involved in activities that involve their students beyond the regular school day.
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Teachers are well compensated. Let's do some math!
180 days in a school year. At least 2 weeks of paid vacation, at most 170 days worked. Average day-8AM to 3PM with one hour of lunch (6 hours/day). Teachers spend at most 2 hours a day grading and prepping, but this is balanced by sick time. All together, a teacher works about 1000 hours/year. That works out to be $45/hr with excellent benefits...not a bad gig if you ask me.
edit2: My wife is a teacher with 15 years in her school system and makes almost 80k as a second grade teacher. She might spend 2 hours grading papers and stuff once a week, typically it is much closer to 30 minutes as teachers typically get an hour prep every day and she can grade and work on lesson plans during that time. She actually gets paid EXTRA to spend an extra 10 or so minutes a day doing bus duty. My dad taught for 34 years before retiring a few years ago. He taught Jr. High level and did actual WORK only 3-4 hours a day. The rest of the day he had an hour where he and 3 other teachers were paid to talk to each other and another hour where he could prep, an hour to walk across the parking lot to teach one of his hours in the High School... In the late 90's he actually calculated his true hourly wage (i.e. how much he got paid for every hour he actually worked) as over $65 an hour at that time.
Depends. My experience - by the day as a substitute, in my current position is by the hour fulltime private program, and public fulltime is salary.
Teachers get a salary not hourly wages.
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