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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor

First of all, a Masters is not the basic requirement for teaching. Many teachers do not obtain their masters until years after teaching, but since you know so much about teachers, I am not sure why you make such a incorrect statement.

My facts are straight. I said from the UofC it is as this is a Calgary discussion. And I was talking about of Masters of Education/Teaching (not sure exactly what it's called), but it is not even a "real" masters degree. I know you can go to Lethbridge or many other places and get your teaching certificate in 4 years. What's your point?

Really though, that is beside the point. $54,000 is an ok wage, nothing great but enough to get by on. After 11 years $83,000, that is a pretty good wage, a decent wage that someone with 6 years of schooling and 11 years of experience deserves. Especially someone doing a job as important as teaching the people who will run our country in the future. We aren't talking about Tim Hortons employees here. One thing that you should be happy about is that teachers only get a raise of whatever the cost of living increase is.

Here are a few other starting salaries.

Chemical engineering grads' - $63,749
computer science majors - $56,921
engineering graduates - $56,336
finance and accounting graduates - $48,795 and $47,413
Economics - $52,926
Nursing - $52,129

The difference, since you apparently haven't read any of my other posts, is that I contend a teacher only works 75% of the year, which means they are paid disproportionately high for the number of hours worked/year. The problem with this argument is nobody has been able to find facts or stats that show how many hours in a year the average teacher works compared to other vocations.

See above please.