Look What the Senate Is Planning For Teachers and State Employees (health insurance, income)
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LOL< i'm sure they're confident this isn't going to be a problem because no teacher will want to teach in NC for the 5 years it takes to get vested in the retirement program. They'll all just move away long before they can retire.
I do wonder, however, if these people would be eligible for policies via the healthcare market place? (Assuming the program lasts that long)
$54,000 is peanuts. Bringing the salary to the top level of teachers in the Southeast is nothing to be proud of. Teachers with extensive training and experience should be making at least $75,000/year. We're talking here about the education of the state's children. I'll never understand why Americans have so little respect for the education and work of teachers. Parents and society in general today put enormous burdens on teachers; they expect miracles, but don't want to pay for it. If you want to see American children continue to fall behind their counterparts in Europe--where teachers are respected and well paid--then fine, continue to belittle teachers and deprive them of a professional salary and benefits. But remember that it's the children who suffer, as well as our nation.
Why not start at $100,000 and work up from there?
That's the problem with government jobs. True value has to be guessed at and pay scales are set arbitrarily. I would put teachers somewhere below police officers, but above social workers.
Also, if we're talking about yearly salary, wouldn't $54,000 for 9 months of work equate to $67,500 for the 12 months most other government employees are working? I'd imagine teachers could find additional work those 3 months and bump their income up substantially if they were so inclined. Most every other yearly salary figure we have to compare against would not be careers with that option.
LOL< i'm sure they're confident this isn't going to be a problem because no teacher will want to teach in NC for the 5 years it takes to get vested in the retirement program. They'll all just move away long before they can retire.
Teacher turnover in North Carolina is actually lower than the national average. Only about 1% moved or left the profession due to dissatisfaction last year. The majority of attrition is due to retirement, taking other teaching jobs within the state, or a spouse relocating for work.
The increased pay scale in the current budget will only improve the outlook.
I'm concerned whether some folks in this thread understand that the benefit in question is RETIREMENT health care. It really sounds like some believe that current teachers or state employees that are already employees would lose those benefits. Or, heaven forbid, that we would quit altogether providing benefits to CURRENT employees.
Isn't it ALL state employees, and not just teachers?
It is quite simply telling NEW employees that they will no longer have guaranteed benefits upon retirement. They can get Obamacare or whatever private industry remaining can obtain.
I'm concerned whether some folks in this thread understand that the benefit in question is RETIREMENT health care. It really sounds like some believe that current teachers or state employees that are already employees would lose those benefits. Or, heaven forbid, that we would quit altogether providing benefits to CURRENT employees.
Isn't it ALL state employees, and not just teachers?
It is quite simply telling NEW employees that they will no longer have guaranteed benefits upon retirement. They can get Obamacare or whatever private industry remaining can obtain.
That is correct, and if passed, the current legislature will be overturned as well as the governor who signs it.
I'm concerned whether some folks in this thread understand that the benefit in question is RETIREMENT health care.
We were paying for healthcare of people that we no longer employed? What the what? That's some primo cush benefits. I wish my job offered that. I guess tax money goes a lot farther than honest revenue.
promising long-term benefits to folks who are otherwise underpaid to the private market is not that cushy. don't overlook that. Truly, government employment has pretty much always been for those who valued stability and benefits over pay.
But I'm not sure what mlhm5 is even trying to say in his last post. It's as if he/she acknowledges that it's absolutely correct that this ONLY affects FUTURE NEW employees, but that it will be proclaimed as something worse.
It's pretty much like screeching at 70 year olds that the Congress will starve them and cut their SS benefits when any proposal to curtail benefits only concerns those for whom such benefits are decades away.
That's the problem with government jobs. True value has to be guessed at and pay scales are set arbitrarily. I would put teachers somewhere below police officers, but above social workers.
Also, if we're talking about yearly salary, wouldn't $54,000 for 9 months of work equate to $67,500 for the 12 months most other government employees are working? I'd imagine teachers could find additional work those 3 months and bump their income up substantially if they were so inclined. Most every other yearly salary figure we have to compare against would not be careers with that option.
Interesting, why would you rank police officer pay over teacher pay? Seems like the same sort of logic that favors increasing prison population over education and healthcare. The only economic justification I can think of is one is a male dominated profession and the other female dominated. If we had to choose, would we want our best teachers to quit teaching and become cops or would we want our best cops to become teachers.
Salaries aren't arbitrary because of guessing, the issue is we have unlimited demand for most government services. At some point, we can only pay what we can afford and can only hire the talent that exists. It's really a matter of deciding how much capital, both money and human, we want to allocate to public vs. private purposes. It's one of the great debates.
Interesting, why would you rank police officer pay over teacher pay? Seems like the same sort of logic that favors increasing prison population over education and healthcare. The only economic justification I can think of is one is a male dominated profession and the other female dominated.
If you think teachers deserve higher average pay than police officers, I suggest you ride along with one. It can even be a female officer since you want to make it about gender.
If you think teachers deserve higher average pay than police officers, I suggest you ride along with one. It can even be a female officer since you want to make it about gender.
Do lesson planning (for 3-4 classes a day), managing a classroom full of K-12s (60-90 minutes), a bulk of administrative tasks, parent/teacher contacts and conferences, grading papers, hallway monitoring, external activities, meetings, trainings/professional development, staying after school for tardies/absences/tutoring makeup times, and being a nurturer to boot when mommy/daddy about to divorce, etc. One year was enough for me, corporate America is a breeze compared to that 18 hour day and many weekends.
And then by God, squeeze instructional time in there somewhere coupled with an 2nd job to pay bills. It's not a glamor profession but like a cop, a passion to do it.
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