5 Retirements So Far...Top Salary $83K

So far we have five (5) teachers retiring, at an average salary at retirement of just under $77,000.  That's a new all-time best for a retirement year.

$83,000 for a top salary???
Even if the individual is a top-shelf teacher (and we believe that to be the case here)...that's simply too much.
We'll spare you the age-old comparisons to other occupations that work 12 months per year.
What we'll add is that these comparison are to similar PROFESSIONAL occupations...you know...the ones that work nights, weekends, and summers as our teachers indicate that they do.  The comparison are very much on equal footing.

We've said it before; now is a good time to repeat the message.
$80,000 per year for a teacher that works 9 months out of the year is just plain wrong; that extractpolates to a salary of $107K for the "2080 hour" crowd.
Especially when young teachers out of school are paid a paltry wage.
We MUST raise the floor, but we must also install a ceiling.

Retirements for 2012-13
English Teacher [High School]MS, 40 yr....$83,027
German Teacher [High School]MS, 37 yr.....$81,138
Math Teacher [CHUMS] MS, 36 yr............$78,949 
                                      (20% FTE @ salary of $15,790)
Art Teacher [CHUMS/HS]MS, 34 yr...........$76,318
Grade 5 Teacher [Westside] BS,30 yr......$66,743
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Average........MS,35 yr................$76,807


Oh...and here's something you likely didn't know...if you look up our retiring German teacher on the DPI website, you'll see that the salary is actually much higher than reported here.  For the 2010-11 school year, our German teacher actually earned $95,743!!!  This is because like a lot of other teachers, this one taught an "overload", or summer school, and actually accounted for 1.2FTE.  Nice!  Overload means the same workday; but 20% higher salary.


The whole overload thing, as well as something to which we've been frequently alerted ---"time-carding"--- are yet more layers in the bloomin' onion which needs to be peeled away.   Soon....soon. 


Ahhh....so little time...so very much to blog about!