Title: Why do teachers get paid so little? - Quora
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Why do teachers get paid so little?
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Why do teachers get paid so little? 32 Answers
Jeff Johns
Answered 7 years ago
Shouldn't we first address the assumption in this question that teachers are paid "so little", and ask what constitutes, "so little"? From the numbers I've seen, the average, annual teacher salary (K-12) in the U.S. is in the $42K area. Not a horrible number, in itself, when you consider the average U.S. salary on a whole is about $50.5K. I mean, $42 isn't exactly living-on-Ramen-noodles level, now is it? But then you have to consider that even the $42K number includes all K-12 teachers in the U.S.
Private school teachers make considerably less than their public counterparts. (I saw someone he
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Shouldn't we first address the assumption in this question that teachers are paid "so little", and ask what constitutes, "so little"? From the numbers I've seen, the average, annual teacher salary (K-12) in the U.S. is in the $42K area. Not a horrible number, in itself, when you consider the average U.S. salary on a whole is about $50.5K. I mean, $42 isn't exactly living-on-Ramen-noodles level, now is it? But then you have to consider that even the $42K number includes all K-12 teachers in the U.S.
Private school teachers make considerably less than their public counterparts.