How many days per year does a teacher work?
The Govenor
2011/03/02 03:49:14
The average American worker:
52 weeks x 5 Days/week = 260 Days
4 weeks vacation/year = -16 Days*
10 holidays/year= -10
3 sick days/year= -3
3 personal days/year= -3
Total days worked 228 Days/ year
* 4 weeks vacation AFTER 4-5 years of employment
Work day is 8 hours WORK with 1/2 hr. unpaid lunch and 2/15 minutes break/day
The average teacher:
School year = 180 days
14 Holidays/year= -14
5 personal days/year= -5
7 Sick days/year- -7
? Vacation days/year= ? *
Total days worked 154 Days/ year
*I have heard rumors teachers get vacation time as well but not confirmed
Work day is 7 hours including a 1/2 hour PAID lunch and one hour FREE period/day
Now I know all the teachers are going to cry about ALL the EXTRA time they put in at home and the "continuing" education they have to do.
Here is the solution: Work an 8 hour day with an unpaid lunch like the rest of us and you can get it all done in school! What a novel concept, huh?
52 weeks x 5 Days/week = 260 Days
4 weeks vacation/year = -16 Days*
10 holidays/year= -10
3 sick days/year= -3
3 personal days/year= -3
Total days worked 228 Days/ year
* 4 weeks vacation AFTER 4-5 years of employment
Work day is 8 hours WORK with 1/2 hr. unpaid lunch and 2/15 minutes break/day
The average teacher:
School year = 180 days
14 Holidays/year= -14
5 personal days/year= -5
7 Sick days/year- -7
? Vacation days/year= ? *
Total days worked 154 Days/ year
*I have heard rumors teachers get vacation time as well but not confirmed
Work day is 7 hours including a 1/2 hour PAID lunch and one hour FREE period/day
Now I know all the teachers are going to cry about ALL the EXTRA time they put in at home and the "continuing" education they have to do.
Here is the solution: Work an 8 hour day with an unpaid lunch like the rest of us and you can get it all done in school! What a novel concept, huh?
Top Opinion
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Non-Profit 2012/12/17 16:56:33
+10I do appreciate all the teachers explaining how they even feasibly work as hard as most professionals. I have a masters degree, as well as a LCSW. I get paid 40,800 and I am on call twenty four hours a day. Monday through Friday 9-5 if there is no crisis. Typically I have to work 44-46 hours a week on an easy week as I have 15 employees to supervise. As this is a behavioral health field there is most certainly always a crisis. Oh yeah, teachers I also work 52 weeks a year. You claim to not be paid for the summer, by your calculations how much do you deserve to get paid if you worked during the summer? And please stop feeding yourselves the bullcrap that you put in so much extra work. You don't, I know many teachers. Recently during Hurricane Sandy I had to work and go out in the storm as I am a mental health professional while teachers got to sit home and get paid. Quit your griping you are overpaid and underworked. Period.
They talk about all the extra time they put in and are not paid for it. Many doctors are paid a salary and are on call 24/7 and not paid for the extra time. Lawyers often research their cases on their own time which they are not paid for. Accountants are often expected to work 60-80 hour week during tax season and aren't paid any extra for that. So before teachers start complaining that they are doing more work look at other professions.
Assumptions: Both non-teachers and teachers work an 8 hour day,
According to the National Center for Education Statisitics http://nces.ed.gov/programs/d...
The Average Salary for a Public School Teacher 2010-2011 was $56,069
If the average public school teacher works 154 Days per year that's $45.51 PER HOUR! Plus all those great benefits and tax loop holes. Not to mention tenure!
If the average teacher works 228 days a year (YEA RIGHT) that's still $30.74 AN HOUR.
The lesson is...
Stop telling your kids to be doctors & lawyers. Forget starting your own business! Tell those MBA accountants to ditch the long nights at the office. It doesn't take a PHD in economics to tell you that teachers make way to much. Looks like the best kept career secret is to become a public school teacher... A shame they don't teach that.
I was talking to my brother yesterday, and he works 60 hour weeks as an engineer at 3M. Thats five, twelve hour days. Never have I heard of a teacher working from 6:30 am to 6:30 pm--I don't care how many papers you have to grade. He gets measured on a scale of 1 to 5 every quarter and his pay is tied to these evaluations.
Keep whining teachers! We all know the real reason you guys are complaining is because you picked the wrong major in college or didn't get good enough grades to land a real career. It's not the private sector's fault that you couldn't hack it, sorry.
A teacher will arrive in school any time between 7-8.15. (not like a typical 8 hour job), Works through lunch by delivering extra-curricular activities, meetings with students etc (unlike standard 8 hour jobs),
Extra 'FREE' period?? PLANNING is what they do with it. You know, like a project manager might need to PLAN something before they go ahead etc - Yea teachers do the same. Planning resources (made from scratch) etc. As they also have to PROVE that they have taught the syllabus etc so that 1 childs low grade doesn't fall on their neck. If there's no planning - their is always many other things, like marking, reporting, duties.. the list is endless
Oh and around about 5pm is when most teachers leave school - after MORE planning, meetings, insets, twilight sessions (no, not the vampire book) - and even later if they actually do extra-curricular activities, sixth form evenings, parents evenings (14 hour days)
So on average that's 10 hours right? Working all the way through?
Hmm that's what I thought. Maybe people shouldn't be so judging unless they know the facts and perhaps survived a day/year of it themselves.
Do they still work fewer days than the typical 9 to 5 er? Sure. But they also are paid proportionately less given their years of education. I have an M.S. and work in private industry making around three times as much as a similarly educated HS science teacher. I hope to teach some day, once I have saved up enough to be able to afford to do so. Oh, and I will only be allowed to teach after I go back to school darn near full time for another two years and then take a battery of licensing exams. The reason you have a dearth of math and science teachers in the schools is they get paid squat compared to what they could make as an engineer or scientist and it is a pain in the neck to get in.
Illinois taxpayers website with teachers salaries and pensions
See ya around!!!
My husband is a business executive and he subbed for me one day and said he could never do this job. It takes A LOT to be a teacher.
"Apparently there is no tax money for the barren shelves at food pantries or the lack of beds at homeless shelters or to support the handicapped. But there IS enough tax money to pay for:
A Phys. Ed teacher $203,154 for a 9 month work year.
14,866 teachers made more than $100,000 in 2011.
21 who made more over $1,000/day ($170,000/yr.)
A Drivers Ed teacher who salary is $18,222/month to teach teenagers how to parallel park.
13 teachers make more than the Governor’s $177,500.
Top 100 Teachers average $18,169 per month salary ($163,579/yr).
And all of that is for a 36-week work-year (182 day contracts)."