You have to remember, they only work about 8 months of the year with 2 off in summer, almost a month in winter, week for march break, all snow days (3-5 avg), all weekends off, no overtime, and work about 8 until 4 every day (school doesnt technically start til 9 and ends around 3 in most cases plus they get periods off in their schedules) and all with a 1 hour lunch break. Then the unions typically pay for most of your masters and other training if you go for it while working, which most do in a basic masters in teaching type easy/impossible to fail training.
For most of Canada, over $60k is a pretty high salary with no real committments or overtime requirements (most salary have longer hours or "unpaid" overtime type stuff). If you are in vancouver or toronto or something, ya, I guess its not a high salary and probably not a living wage for the rent and standard of living there. For an 8 or 9 month a year job with no overtime and all the ohter perks with huge pension, thats pretty damn high hourly wage though.
As Sask says, there is a lot of unpaid overtime for lesson planning and grading. HOWEVER, much of that diminishes after a couple years, once a teacher has all their old lesson plans, and learns to not spend very much time grading.
I don't know. My sister is a teacher and she's at school from 7 am to 5 pm, 5 days a week. And every day she needs another hour or two to go through homework or exams (or talking with parents). In her first year she wrote down all the work hours. She worked on average over 55 hours a week (including holidays) for $49k before taxes.
You have to remember, they only work about 8 months of the year with 2 off in summer, almost a month in winter, week for march break, all snow days (3-5 avg), all weekends off, no overtime, and work about 8 until 4 every day (school doesnt technically start til 9 and ends around 3 in most cases plus they get periods off in their schedules) and all with a 1 hour lunch break. Then the unions typically pay for most of your masters and other training if you go for it while working, which most do in a basic masters in teaching type easy/impossible to fail training.
For most of Canada, over $60k is a pretty high salary with no real committments or overtime requirements (most salary have longer hours or "unpaid" overtime type stuff). If you are in vancouver or toronto or something, ya, I guess its not a high salary and probably not a living wage for the rent and standard of living there. For an 8 or 9 month a year job with no overtime and all the ohter perks with huge pension, thats pretty damn high hourly wage though.
As Sask says, there is a lot of unpaid overtime for lesson planning and grading. HOWEVER, much of that diminishes after a couple years, once a teacher has all their old lesson plans, and learns to not spend very much time grading.
I don't know. My sister is a teacher and she's at school from 7 am to 5 pm, 5 days a week. And every day she needs another hour or two to go through homework or exams (or talking with parents). In her first year she wrote down all the work hours. She worked on average over 55 hours a week (including holidays) for $49k before taxes.