re: #269 compound idaho

Public school teachers do alright. The US average teacher salary is $ 49,630. For a household made up of two teachers (weakest part of the argument), that income places them in the top quintile of all US households ($88K). They receive a good benefit package and 15 weeks off each year. Compared to private school teachers, they rock. Compared to all Bachelor’s degrees not so much but still not too bad. Besides a degree in teaching is not as rigorous as math, physics, or engineering. To those earning the median household income of $52K a household income of $90K seems like a lot of money.
[Link: nces.ed.gov…]

Except for math and physics teachers. Like my roommate whose primary degree is in math and takes a huge pay cut every day she enters her high school to teach.