Have teachers salaries really gone up?

amother

OP ↓

Wed, May 31 2023, 5:39 pm

what can I expect to be paid as a first year LK teacher in brooklyn 5th grade (following a year of being an assistant and tutor)?

amother

Ebony

Wed, May 31 2023, 7:42 pm

To answer your title question: Yes, I got paid double this year from last year for the same amount of work. Admittedly, I had been severely underpaid.

I don't know the answer to the question in your OP.

amother

Bellflower

Wed, May 31 2023, 7:50 pm

Teachers in my girls school get paid 40K for around 18 hours a week. It's on the higher end. They're very selective when it comes to hiring teachers.

amother

↑ OP

Wed, May 31 2023, 7:57 pm

so a first year teachers salary is up to 25-30? thats definately up from what my sister was paid 5 years ago! and after I gain experience? what is the cap, so to speak

amother

Papayawhip

Sun, Jun 04 2023, 3:33 pm

For a typical classroom teacher (elementary) I believe the pay is now between 30-45 for 3/4 hours 5 days a week (experienced)
For high school (more specialized) the pay is much higher like probably 7-15k per period (so if you teach 2 periods a day that's like 14-30k)
Really a huge (range and) increase from what it was Baruch Hashem

smss

Sun, Jun 04 2023, 4:50 pm

amother Papayawhip wrote:

Amazing! Where is this?

My OOT school is still paying new teachers $20k for part time. It goes up with experience, but not a ton...

simcha12plus

Sun, Jun 04 2023, 5:13 pm

In town Brooklyn schools are paying first year teachers 20 hrs a week (9-1) around $20,000.
That’s what my daughter and her friends are being paid.

amother

Melon

Sun, Jun 04 2023, 8:44 pm

yentee wrote:

what abt high school teachers? how much per period for experienced teacher?

Inflation. The realization that if they don't pay they won't have teachers. Appreciation. Finally.

amother

Oldlace

Sun, Jun 04 2023, 10:05 pm

yentee wrote:

what abt high school teachers? how much per period for experienced teacher?

In lakewood I get about 38-41 a period. I’m not sure how that other poster is calculating the pay but it sounds like a lot.
Unless I should be asking for a raise??

↑ notshanarishona

Sun, Jun 04 2023, 10:18 pm

AlwaysGrateful wrote:

What changed? How can schools afford to pay more across the board like this?

In the last 2/3 years (since covid), teachers have been leaving in droves. The schools didn’t have a choice but to raise salaries.
As to how they can afford it, in the scheme of things, it’s only a couple hundred thousand in a multimillion dollar budget. Teachers Salaries is not where a majority of your tuition dollars go.

amother

Coffee

Sun, Jun 04 2023, 10:20 pm

Wow I’m an elementary school teacher in monsey teaching for 15 years and I don’t get anything like those numbers!!
I must be teaching in the wrong school!

amother

Daphne ↓

Sun, Jun 04 2023, 10:21 pm

Can someone break it down to an hourly rate? (meaning hours spent in classroom - not time for lesson plans and grading, etc.). I'm less than 1/2 day so hard to compare yearly salaries.

amother

Seablue

Sun, Jun 04 2023, 11:20 pm

notshanarishona wrote:

Actually not true. I do bookkeeping for schools. They are struggling more than in the past. Payroll almost doubled in the last three years and tuition keeps being raised. Parents are unhappy about higher tuitions yet the schools are still not covering their budget. MOST of the income goes to payroll. The other big expenses of a school are insurance, taxes, mortgage/rent and cleaning crew.

I agree teachers deserve bigger salaries and parents deserve a break but the frum school system doesn’t seem to have a solution.

amother

↑ Daphne

Mon, Jun 05 2023, 8:40 pm

amother Daphne wrote:

Can someone break it down to an hourly rate? (meaning hours spent in classroom - not time for lesson plans and grading, etc.). I'm less than 1/2 day so hard to compare yearly salaries.

Bump

amother

Jetblack

Tue, Jun 06 2023, 5:39 am

amother Papayawhip wrote:

I teach ten periods a week. Should I be making $70-150K?? If so, I am severely underpaid!!

amother

Vermilion

Tue, Jun 06 2023, 6:30 am

amother Jetblack wrote:

I teach ten periods a week. Should I be making $70-150K?? If so, I am severely underpaid!!

I think she means:
10 periods a week=2 periods a day

Based on that, you should be making $14-30,000