They get amazing pensions, job security and time off with high salary and low workloads. Attracts people with shit degrees since just get in teaching program for 2years and bam a real job. Its similar to avg rcmp officer now that all fitness and height requirements are gone and it caters to women and minorities - a paycheque to people and not a calling or something they care about doing.
It depends. Here in Saskatchewan the salary of a teacher is tied to their number of degrees and to how many years they taught. If you only have one bachelor degree and your teaching license and nothing more you will start at $46k a year. After 12 years of teaching you will max out at $68k. But if you have two bachelors, did some time in graduate school and have finished multiple other seminars you start at like $60k and max out at over $100k after 12 years.
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.
They get amazing pensions, job security and time off with high salary and low workloads. Attracts people with shit degrees since just get in teaching program for 2years and bam a real job. Its similar to avg rcmp officer now that all fitness and height requirements are gone and it caters to women and minorities - a paycheque to people and not a calling or something they care about doing.
It depends. Here in Saskatchewan the salary of a teacher is tied to their number of degrees and to how many years they taught. If you only have one bachelor degree and your teaching license and nothing more you will start at $46k a year. After 12 years of teaching you will max out at $68k. But if you have two bachelors, did some time in graduate school and have finished multiple other seminars you start at like $60k and max out at over $100k after 12 years.
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.