Maybe if we were given an iota of respect and paid more than 50% of what engineers are paid, we wouldn’t have to be.
A teacher who works thirty-five years can retire in virtually all states at the age of 57 - seven years before the average person. And the average teacher who does so today, can expect a pension of almost $75,000 annually for the rest of their lives. The sixty percent of teachers eligible for Social Security can expect to have a fixed income of $85,000 annually by their mid-60s.
If teachers want to have a higher salary, they should ask for smaller pensions as a trade. Pensions cost the state more money beforehand than a simple salary raise does.
Sorry but that 75k number is complete bs. Getting anywhere close to that requires 35+ years of service (in the most generous of states to boot) and very few of us make it to that long. Less than half of anyone employed as a public school teacher even make it to the amount of service required to even receive the smallest of pension.
You probably shouldn’t get your information from Republican think tanks and actually ask people in the profession.
