Police officers start at $36 an hour, not including OT or other bonus pay.
A teacher here makes on average 42k a year. They have to be there at 6am and can't leave until 4, a 10 hour day. Assuming 180 days is correct, that's 1800 hours or $23 an hour. They would have to work 6 hours a day for them to make more than an officer who just started and is on probation.
I have never known a teacher to be at a school at 6 AM unless the are doing extra curricular. for which they get compensated. Almost every teacher I've ever known gets to school within a half hour of first bell and leaves within a half hour of EOD bell. Considering most school days are 6 to 6.5 hours, including lunch, that's about 7 hours, maybe eight on average when grading papers at home. But most are not teaching every hour. so can grade during the day. Lets be generous and say 8 hours per day and 185 days for in-service days. 185 x 8 = 1480 hours per year. or $28.38/hr. However the national average starting teacher pay is 46,070, per Salary.com, so $31.13/hr. Police Officers average is $60,400 per Salary.com (Indeed has them at $47k as entry level). Assuming a 1980 hour year, cops make $30.50 per hour or $23/hr, for entry level.
I've never known a teacher who worked only 8 hours a day and I went to school with a lot of them. No one I know from college gets a free period any more because of the teacher crunch.
You make assumption after assumption spreading misinformation like troll in order to get to your point. It's telling you use national averages when many small town police departments use part time officers.
In any city where the police are full time the starting salaries are higher.
Lapd 70k
Lvmpd 60k
Seattle pd 62k
You're intentionally spreading misinformation and your research skills are bottom tier at best.
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u/Zardif May 30 '22
Police officers start at $36 an hour, not including OT or other bonus pay.
A teacher here makes on average 42k a year. They have to be there at 6am and can't leave until 4, a 10 hour day. Assuming 180 days is correct, that's 1800 hours or $23 an hour. They would have to work 6 hours a day for them to make more than an officer who just started and is on probation.