How much do teachers make? Teacher Interview Compilation | Salary Transparent Street 💚

How much do teachers make? 📚 For World Teachers' Day, we compiled all our interviews with teachers.

The average base pay for teachers is $26,193/year, or $16.43/hr. Interestingly, all of these interviews were filmed near our home base in the DMV (DC/MD/VA), and some of the highest-paying school systems exist in this area as well. All 3 top companies for teachers in the US are schools based in the DMV (Montgomery County Public Schools $47.33/hr, District of Columbia Public Schools $46.22/hr, and Prince George's County Public Schools $45.99/hr) Source listed below.

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[rkstg]

My mom was a paraprofessional in PG County, MD and after working for PGCPS for 37 years she was only making around $25/hr

[idontcreatecontent]

Assuming the Aussie was talking in AUD, that would convert to roughly $58.5k

[AnimeLover-yduw]

The teacher salary scale makes no sense. Teachers should make more money. After COVID we learned how important their job is. It’s so sad that they have to pay thousands of dollars to get a Masters or Doctors Degree to ended up making less than $60, 000 a year. Meanwhile Superintendents make a ton of money and they are not dealing with the kids. I feel like, teacher don’t receive the respect they deserve.

[rickcross]

I honestly think it's based on where you live. If you live in the DC area teachers get paid really well. Baltimore surprise me because the last I heard there in need of teachers and their paying them 80 to 100k.

[TeachLikeBianca]

I think I'm going to make a video on my salary as a teacher. A lot of misconceptions in general about teacher pay.

[OneSmileAtATime.]

After working in education for 6 months, many teachers don’t get paid enough in America. Para educators don’t either; that’s why every one of them I’ve worked with have other jobs too. On the other hand, my sister is a college professor and makes decent money, especially since her husband is a construction office manager.

[tribalque]

They must have gone out of their way here because I've never heard of a teacher making 6 figures salary

[blessednhm]

Wow! Some of these teachers make really good money! The teacher pay in Florida sucks.

[ricoplatz]

Didn't get to see the countries/location in which each teacher taught/teaches.😢

[pattymott]

I’ve been a teacher for 30+ years in Eastern Montana and am finally making $65, 000.

[michaeldanielallen]

It would be nice to see a compilation for teaching outside of the richest areas of the country. Teachers don’t make 100k anywhere except DC area.

[multimidnight]

Teacher : I make shit
Instagram model : I take 🤳, and make 6 figures and sometimes 6 figures per pic.

[d.h.dd.h.d.]

I was listening to my idol, Martha Stewart, in an Interview on shop with the stars.

She was asked questions abt her mom. Her mom was a teacher who md very little money at $27, 000 per yr. Martha is in her 80s.

In 2004, my starting salary in the State of Florida, with a BS & K-12 cert, was $27, 500.

Teachers are getting their cheap cars repossessed in the parking lots of schools so they can pay their student loan debt.

When I returned in 2017, as a high qualified educator, my salary was $37, 500 with an MS in reading edu (at a cost of $68K), gifted endorsement cost $2, 000, & my ESOL endorsement cost $2, 000.

In 2022, my salary was $47, 500. Teachers in FL got a raise, spearheaded by the Governor, but the districts also decreased med benefits to 70/30 & the copays per yr went up to $7K & sht term disability went up to $200 per paycheck.

So much for the $10K increase.

Now, I have my PhD & I can expect to mk $57K per yr while my state college hubby mks $400K/yr.

Oh, the salary cap for teachers is $101K & for admin $151K.

We both work for the state. He teaches a single class per semester & has 17 grad students & 6 labs.

I have 37-students per period in a molded & rat I fested portable, in an upscale community, that gave me a lung disease.

The class sz teacher student ratio for core classes is 22:1.

My salary doesn't match my financial invesent in my education, which is by the way student loans.

[crystalnait]

Let me give you a solution to teacher shortages
-remove principals, superindents and all those administrators


How does that solve everything:
1) their huge pay checks can be divided on teachers of that school /district which will mean teachers will have a livable wage (its illogicql for administrators to get 300k with bonus each year while teachers who do thr heavy lifting get from 30k to 80k and only lucky ones reach 100k but with a compromise aka more classes and doing the job of two or three teachers )
2/ administrators have never been on the side of teachers they never help, they do practically nothing but be a burden on the teachers on top of the student's parents, administration is a source of stress for teachers, remove them will let teachers teach and educate and build relationships with their students without stress and without those administrators interfering and implementing policies and recommendations that are clearly theoretical which proves that they never stepped foot in a classroom or that they don't care
3/ teachers already do most of the administrative job in the school, so they can handle few tasks more as long as teachers number is adequate to cover the classes abd the work load and that is so doable when you remove the dead weight

[Dr.Beetlejuice]

Teachers should make a livable retirable wage across the board. I applaud these trachers for getting their six figures but i know it doesnt go far in California.

[ericswift]

"Preschool teacher" means daycare worker....

[waleedkhalid]

What’s crazy is the range of salaries. You have teachers making 100k in places like NYC for the same job as someone in the South who must make do with 50k. Taken as is, these numbers make no sense. Then you realize that adjusting for cost of living means that both teachers realistically make a similar amount.

[brandonwhaley]

Is it possible to have long form interviews with just one person that either peaks peoples interest for example this video?

[youtubetimecapsul]

Do not believe the BS that you hear about teachers making horrible salaries. Most teachers on average make the medium income. And if they are making a low salary then it’s the starting salary. By the way most jobs start you off at a low salary if you’re inexperienced.

[useyourbrain]

Now, add benefits to those salaries. It's a tough job, no doubt. Now explain why our kids can't read or add.