The best and worst countries to be a teacher, based on salary

Business Insider ^ | 02/12/2019 | The best and worst countries to be a teacher, based on salary Shayanne Gal, Lina Batarags and Leann

[SeekAndFind]

>On Monday, more than 4,000 teachers in Denver went on strike for the first time in 25 years, after failing to reach a satisfactory pay deal with administrators.

• The average American teacher makes $44,000 starting out and approximately $68,000 at the upper end of their earning potential.
• In comparison, teachers in Luxembourg can make up to $137,000.
• Here's a look at how teacher salaries across countries stack up at different experience levels.

On Monday, more than 4,000 teachers in Denver went on strike for the first time in 25 years, after failing to reach a satisfactory pay deal with administrators.

In the US, the average American teacher makes a starting salary of $44,000 a year, and about $68,000 for a veteran teacher.

Meanwhile, according to data released by the OECD, the starting salary for a high school teacher with no experience in Luxembourg is about $79,000. The peak salary for a veteran teacher is $137,000.

The OECD's full data set reveals a yawning gap between the highest and lowest paid teachers around the world. When converted to US dollars, many of the salaries fall well short of the average American teacher, who makes $44,000 starting out and approximately $68,000 at the upper end.

Here is the full breakdown of how teacher salaries stack up across the world, sorted by school level and gender.

[major_gaff]

Yeah, 9 months of 60+ hour weeks...my wife is grading papers, writing
lesson plans and writing tests from the minute she gets home until she goes
to bed.

[SgtHooper]

No teacher is worth more than 70K per year. No teacher should go into the profession with the mindset of becoming a millionaire. If they want hazardess duty pay, then bump them another 10k. Otherwise, go work somewhere else.

[Zirondelle]

Who gets paid all year long? I don’t get paid during the summer and neither does any other teacher I know. How would you like a mandatory lay-off?

[nicollo]

Since there is absolutely no rationale for their salaries, ALL teachers are overpaid.

Students should set teacher salary. Then we’d have a rational education market. Right now, there’s no relationship between teacher pay and performance, something that standardized tests will never measure.

However, Kids know.