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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----

  • there are 180 school days for students. Teachers often report to work at least three days to one week before the school year begins in order to attend workshops, training for new procedures and programs, and to prepare lesson plans---generally teachers are working 190-200 days a year;
  • teachers report to work at least 30 minutes before students and are required to stay at least 30 minutes to an hour after school is finished, making their days run between 7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. on average;
  • teachers spend between 2-3 hours a day grading papers, preparing for upcoming lessons, meeting with other team members to collaborate on projects, and completing paperwork necessary for special needs students, including IEP meetings with parents and administrators;
  • teachers generally have a 30-minute lunch period at which time they are also often assigned cafeteria duty (to help students clean-up after themselves or to help control the noise and chaos that often occurs when 200+ students are eating together) or they have playground duty (if they are in elementary school)---while some middle school and high school teachers have hall duties during lunch period (to keep students from entering areas that are closed during lunch) or in-school suspension duty with students who are disruptive;
  • most teachers have other duties, as assigned written in their contracts which means that they may be given unexpected duties outside of the regular school day such as curriculum development committee work that involves re-writing a yearly instructional curriculum, textbook committee work which involves reading, reviewing, and selecting the most appropriate textbooks for a specific subject (each year), prom committee sponsorship which involves working with students and parents on minor issues such as themes and decorations, as well as developing and implementing policies for serious issues that involve alcohol, drugs, and gang-related issues that often arise, class sponsorship, parent-teacher organization responsibilities, or even driving the school bus for special events---none of these activities are compensated for by the school district and many involve outside work and long hours beyond the regular school day;
  • teachers work between 2-3 days after the regular school year ends in order to clean-up their classrooms, collect textbooks, report grades, turn-in grade books and other resources required by the administration, and to attend follow-up workshops;
  • teachers are required to provide evidence of professional development throughout their professional careers; generally this involves between 200-300 hours of professional workshop attendance within a 3-5 year period. These are generally attended by educators after the regular school day or during the summer and on their own time and with their own money. Failure to provide proof of professional development coursework will result in a non-renewal of the teaching certification by the state;
  • teachers are often not provided with the classroom resources needed for instruction and many buy their own classroom supplies, books, or materials for use by the students---check the IRS' standard deduction for teachers and you'll find that even the federal government allows a $200 allowance for teachers because most buy their own classroom supplies each year;
  • teachers are generally allowed only 7-10 days per year for sick days; for a teacher who has children, the sick day allowance may be used for their own children's illness rather than their own illness, as a result, a teacher who has two children who become ill 2-3 days each year will have those days deducted from the allowed sick time ---any sick days used beyond the allocated time is deducted from the teacher's salary;
  • teachers are usually required to attend Open House events, special programs presented by students (including plays, musicals, sports), graduations, fund-raising events, dinners, school board meetings, parent-teacher conferences, and parent-teacher organization meetings--- all which occur after the regular school hours and on their own time.

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.

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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.

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Teachers get a salary not hourly wages.

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