Honestly when Alberta led the market 10 years, new teachers were having difficulty getting contracts without leaving the city, moral was much higher, classrooms were smaller teachers probably were overpaid relative to the rest of Canada.
The question around wages shouldn’t be comparison to other industry. They should be looking at retention rates, average experience of hires provincial migration of teachers and other metrics over years to evaluate if teachers are being paid a wage that attracts them to the province and keeps them in the job. It does not matter if they have had pay cuts over the last 10 years. That shouldn’t have a bearing on today’s wage. It doesn’t matter what others professionals earn. This is supply and demand in terms of anecdotes and the limited data we can find teaching in Alberta is becoming less desirable. That shouldn’t be fixed with wages and class conditions.
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