Teacher of the Year used by StudentsFirst to promote teacher pay bill he doesn’t support

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2. I don't buy the "average" is 79k a year

A lot of times these liars will include retirement benefits and health insurance benefits in the salary. Sometimes they use the monthly salary and sometimes "pro-rate" it to an annual salary despite the fact salaries are based on the actual days you work and are typically spread out over 12 months so that teachers have some income during the summer (they don't qualify for UI when they are on layoff, which is what that is). They are not paid for summer vacation, spring break, or winter break. Teachers don't get vacation pay, unlike other workers.

Before I was illegally shitcanned, I made around $4800 a month. The way the liars would calculate how much I made yearly is they would multiply that amount times 12 rather than by 9. Then they could say, see, you weren't underpaid at all.

The top of the salary scale is typically that high of 79k after 20 years and a Ph.D., but the way things are going now, veteran teachers are being kicked out in cost-saving measures.