Time to Get an Education Degree
Okay, if you are a normal Jack or Jill you are working 40 hours a week and 50 weeks pre year minus a handful of holidays, usually unpaid holidays. You are putting in 2000 hours a year plus overtime unless you are salaried and a professional and you might be putting in 3000 hours per year.
As a teacher in the Enid Public School system you will be putting in only 695 actual hours per year according to that link to their contract. The school year is 1080 hours minus a half dozen or so excused days for weather. But as a teacher your work schedule is much, much, less:
- 185 days of work minus:
- Ten sick days.
- Three personal business days.
- Two emergency days.
- One day of personal development leave.
- Five days bereavement leave.
- hours of planning per week or 55 minutes per day.
- 21 days total so days worked are only 164 days
- Minus the 4.5 hours per week for "planning" AKA goofing off in the teacher's lounge which is 150 hours per year or 25 days worth of non working time.
- 139 days of work per year @ five classes taught per day or 695 actual hours worked per year. If you are a 25 year veteran and now earning around $56,000 per year or around $80.00 per hour actually worked.
Your classes start at 8 am, you are expected to be there a few minutes early, around ten minutes according to the state guidelines, and your classes are over at 2:30 pm and again the state requires you to stick around for ten to fifteen minutes. In that 6.5 hour time frame you teach five classes with 35 minutes off for lunch and 55 minutes off for your "planning" period.
Now you aren't forced to pay into the Social Security System but you are paid 7.5269% retirement pay by district, and on a starting salary of $37,000 with zero experience that is around $2800 per year.
The retirement benefit is 2 percent x (service years) x (final average salary) ÷ 12 = monthly benefit. So a thirty year teacher that is making $56,000 per year at the end gets $2800 per month in retirement. Compare that to the same retirement on social security which is around $2000 per month but for that you will have to have been paying into the system around $3.000 per year so teachers automatically get $3000 per year more than the average taxpayer earning the same exact salary.
Your entire health insurance is paid if you are a teacher, and these days that is a $1000 per month benefit if you are in your fifties and that is for a bare bones plan with around $15,000 per year in out of pocket costs.
And you have to stay after school hours for meetings or attend events to supervise students? Well you get an extra $15.00 to $20.00 per hour pay for after hours duty, meetings, and events. Plus an annual
gross stipend of $150 to $250. plus all the extra stipends on page #27 running from hundreds of dollars to over $15,000 per year
