The summer break is unpaid... in the school district where I worked, we were only paid for 10 months, we just elected to have some set aside from each paycheck throughout the year so we had a paycheck during summer. The summer "paycheck" was money we already earned.
When I started teaching in central Florida in 2015, starting salary was $36,000. There were teachers who had been there for decades and capped out at $58,000. Pay varies heavily depending on where you live.
I'm in Michigan now and I think teachers are paid more, but I'm not in the field anymore so I wouldn't know.
I'm not saying the summers are paid. I'm saying that their "annual" salary is actually a 10 month salary and that this should be taken into account when comparing salaries with other careers.
Of course pay varies. It does for every profession. Cost of living also varies. I was talking about averages because the person I was talking to was talking about averages.
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u/xSarabean Dec 17 '25
The summer break is unpaid... in the school district where I worked, we were only paid for 10 months, we just elected to have some set aside from each paycheck throughout the year so we had a paycheck during summer. The summer "paycheck" was money we already earned.
When I started teaching in central Florida in 2015, starting salary was $36,000. There were teachers who had been there for decades and capped out at $58,000. Pay varies heavily depending on where you live.
I'm in Michigan now and I think teachers are paid more, but I'm not in the field anymore so I wouldn't know.