> Nationally the average teacher salary is $37,000. Some teachers work
>summers to supplement this.
> The national average pay for all people is $34,000 for a 12 month work
>year.
>
> How much would you have us pay teachers?
If my pay were changed to the average salary received by a person
with a Master's Degree (in New Mexico, not the entire US), I would
get a raise of about 60 percent. And that is not even counting the
fact that I have ten years of experience with this school district.
And the average person works about 2,000 hours during one year.
I always work at least 2,000 hours in the ten months of teaching.
Average would do fine for me.
-- Bob Tighe
tighe@aps.edu