CORONAVIRUS Death Thread

[Kich867]

Originally Posted by Blingy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I must be living in a weird pocket of highly paid teachers. According to our school district substitute teachers get paid $250/day. Starting full time teachers start at $300/day with a bachelors degree. Get a district paid masters and that jumps to $450/day. If a teacher does any extras outside their normal in room teaching they get more bumps in pay.

Assistant coaches get $25/hour. Head coaches get $60/hour. This includes activities like school sponsored robotics, debate, competitive dance, etc.

Hell, many teachers are seeing six digits on their W-2 once all extras are accounted for. Granted we live in a high cost of living area (Thanks Microsoft and Amazon) but even then it's a pretty dam good deal IMO.

Definitely depends on where you live, but that's basically any major city. A starting salary of 78k a year, if you actually live inside that city, is worth significantly less than if you were lived outside of it and commuted which introduces its own hassles and costs.

I was offered a job in NYC for a substantial raise but I would have had to move there. After nuking out the costs of living the amount I took home would be significantly less than I was making where I currently was because I was splitting rent with a couple friends. I think I was paying maybe $450 after utilities a month and the only places I would've wanted to live in NYC would have cost ~$2,500 a month, maybe I could've gotten a roommate but I wasn't super keen on living with strangers by that point in my life.

-- Side note: Which city is this, Seattle? Weren't they one of the early cities to adopt raising the minimum wage after they realized that by raising the minimum wage that it indirectly benefited big business in that more people had more expendable income to purchase more / better goods, creating significantly more consumers than they previously had?