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Originally Posted by Locke

Hm. For a structured union job thats a pretty nebulous answer.

So, with 2 weeks vacation most standard work years are about 2000 hours, so some teachers work between 1500-1850?

At 1850 hours thats 46 weeks of work, so thats only 6 weeks vacation which cant be right because summer alone is that 6 weeks, that doesnt take any other holidays or PD days into account.

At 1500 is about 38 work weeks which indicates 14 weeks off total?

And they are accounted for at 9.1 hours per day? So on an hourly basis they're logging 9.1 every work day?

Not sure where the confusion lies. It's like a lot of jobs where you have a certain number of hours that are mandatory (i.e. classroom hours) and you have a certain amount of work you're expected to get done outside of those hours in order to be prepared for that face time with the students. That varies between teachers and it doesn't change the number of days or weeks worked in a year, it just means more hours per day. Some will put in 7-8 hour days while others will end up putting in 10+ hours a day depending on how dedicated they are, what kind of extracurricular activities they handle, what subject they teach, etc.

But yes, the government considers the teacher's work week to be 45.5 hours per week on average, hence the 9.1 hours per work day. At 40-41 weeks that's in the 1850 per year range I mentioned.

But they're not paid per day or per hour, they're paid an annual salary regardless of number of hours actually worked right?

Anyways, I dont want to get into it, and I'm not attacking you or teachers I just wanted to run the numbers a bit because for something thats supposed to be open for everyone to know there seems to be a fair bit of ambiguity.

Yes, they're paid salary. And like many salaried jobs there is some ambiguity in the number of hours that are needed. Even a single teacher will likely vary the number hours worked year to year based on the different circumstances. If you have a good class where the students are all at a similar level then you'll have to work less than if you have a bunch of kids with behavior issues or a huge range in abilities where you need to create and monitor a bunch of individual education plans for each one of them.