Column: Data Shows Average Teacher Makes $60K
School pay has risen dramatically since the push 25 years ago for a minimum teacher salary.
Back in the mid-1980s, hard as this may be to believe today, it was a Republican governor of New Jersey who pushed for and won a minimum starting salary for teachers of $18,500. That gave a $4,000 raise to some 20,000 teachers. Total cost: $80 million. Fast forward to today, and the average teacher in New Jersey is making $60,000 after a decade in education, the latest data from the New Jersey School Report Card shows. It’s about $10,000 less in charter schools and $10,000 more in special service districts. It seems pretty clear Gov. Thomas H. Kean’s effort at giving teachers a living wage worked well. Inflation would put that minimum salary near $38,000 today, so an average that is $22,000 above the minimum is not too shabby. That average…
Simon Says
2:58 am on Friday, June 22, 2012
@ brian: Your ignorance about the teaching profession is astounding. Do you know anything about teaching? You have a different class every year, different students with different needs who move at a different pace, who are not responsive to the same type of teaching techniques, or the same lesson plans. Your district might approve of another curriculum. You might get moved to up or down to … more ›