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Originally Posted by Spurs
I think that if you looked around Canada that $100,000 would be on the lower end of most careers that require the level of education that a teacher does. And there would be many making more without a university education as well.
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Okay, but a teacher doesn't work a full-year; they work 3/4 of a year. I know in this thread we like to pretend that isn't a perk or a component of their compensation, but I don't know how many of you guys are going to be showing up everyday for work over the next two months, but I know zero teachers will be.
I'm aware that above fact will make some people angry. I don't understand why, but I don't think that's a me problem.
Do some professions pay more? Yes.
Do some professions get equal or more time off? No.
That time off is an incentive for people to get into (and stay in) teaching. Again, I know in this thread we are pretending that isn't the case, but I've yet to hear a teacher IRL not mention summers, Christmas and spring off as a major life perk they could never do without.
We could always pro-rate that salary to just three weeks off a year instead of 12 to get a better idea of what an annual salary would look like versus working 0.75 of a year.