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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Median salary for 25 to 54 year old Albertans with a university degree who work full time is $75k.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1...pid=9810045301
$119k is a slappin salary. Anyone who doesn’t realize that - teachers, engineers, software developers, accountants, whoever - has a skewed perception of norms from being surrounded by other upper-middle-class professionals. |
10 years ago teachers still capped out at >$100k per year salary. Did you feel at that time they were over 30% overpaid?
Because in addition to the valid points about properly funding public education re: in-class complexities and teachers having to go buy pencils for their students, remember that inflation has increased 33% since then.
The argument shouldn’t be teachers are overpaid or what’s the right number the argument needs to be wages (generally, but teachers included) increasing to keep pace with cost of living. If you’re not okay with moving the top bracket of teachers to $130k/yr it means you think they’ve been overpaid the last decade.
Sorry but no, those wages in Calgary aren’t really that great. I think it closer to average than you think and not adequate in keeping pace on cost of living.
I know we like to pretend that $100k is some glorious insane compensation on CP but that joke is about 10 yrs old now. Things have changed. Look at average rent, insurance, etc. everything has gone way up. People need to be paid more.
Also to the other comment about not having a max on salary I disagree. Until the union is willing to remove full job protections for very poor performers then teachers should be capped IMO. In non-union circles people have job risk and so the pay / salaries should also rightfully be commensurate with risk. No risk no ability for higher pay.