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Originally Posted by John Doe
Here is the median total incomes in Canada in 2013 (the most recent data I could find):
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tabl...il108a-eng.htm
Here is a list of salaries of teachers in Canada in 2013:
http://www.bctf.ca/uploadedfiles/pub...13-14brief.pdf
There are 4 lists, each comparing minimum and maximum salaries of teachers in two different categories. If you rank the teachers' salaries in respect to the median incomes for each province (e.g.: Alberta minimum salary of Category 5 teacher ($61,333)/Median Alberta Income ($97,390) = 63.0%), Alberta teachers rank 9th out of 10 in 3 of the lists and 10th in the other (note: I didn't include the Territories).
Yes, Alberta teachers make more money than teachers do in any of the other provinces. However, they make less compared to the rest of the citizens of the province than do most of the other teachers in Canada. If you want to bitch about how much teachers in Alberta make then you should be prepared to bitch about how much everyone else in Alberta makes too. |
Hang on, the first table is
household income. That doesn't seem a fair figure to measure against an individual teacher's salary.
This table shows the median
individual income in Alberta is $40,400. That means even the minimum salary of a new teacher in Alberta is 50 per cent higher than the the median individual income in the province, and a teacher with 10 years of experience earns two-and-a-half times the median income.