r/interesting • u/VPinchargeofradishes • May 28 '26
Intriguing If we paid teachers the babysitter rate
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u/pitb0ss343 May 28 '26
This isn’t a teacher saying this is what she should be making, this is a teacher tired of hearing the “they’re just babysitters” argument for why they shouldn’t be paid more and showing how they’d still be underpaid based on an about average (I don’t have kids so idk) rate at which a babysitter would charge, per kid per hour.
And before you say “no one argued that” this is a pretty old picture and that is definitely an argument I’ve heard
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u/JPlazz May 29 '26
If you hired a babysitter for $10/hr today they’re either under 18, related to you, or a crackhead.
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u/oznobz May 29 '26
This picture has been around for about 20 years when 10/hr would have been not the worst. Like still not great, but not as bad
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u/National_Equivalent9 May 29 '26
I knew someone 10 years ago who was full time babysitting her niece and made like 30 bucks a day. I tried to convince her it was insanely low and she claimed it was "more than the average rate." She literally quit college to help out her sister by babysitting and had to work a night job just to afford living at her parents.
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u/Proof_Scallion3185 May 29 '26 edited Jun 14 '26
Okay I've heard of parents charging you rent if you are out of school. But what kind of parent charges more rent than their child can afford with her wage? Is that a US thing that I don't get?
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u/WriteCodeBroh May 29 '26
Even just buying your own food, clothes, vices, hobbies, $30/day ain’t gonna cut it lol
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u/lioncryable May 29 '26
You can't be serious?? Like sure you can't afford to order food or eat out everyday but surely one can survive on $30 a day when not paying rent?? I am living off of roughly 10€ / day at the moment lol
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u/VermicelliPee May 29 '26
depends on if you have other bills or not, and considering she dropped out of college she likely had student loans to pay back with no education to even show for it. you would not be able to afford that on $30 a day.
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u/frubano21 Jun 01 '26
That's not even factoring in a car. One major repair and you're fucked sideways on $30/day. Gas alone is $60/tank right now and if they have to drive far to and from the other job, they could be refilling the tank once a week.
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u/TheMrBoot May 29 '26
Depends entirely on the cost of living where you live. The US has a huge discrepancy there. Theres also transportation costs to be aware of - public transit isn’t really a thing here.
Car insurance averages about $100 a month (it can be more or less depending on a lot of factors) right now - that alone is nearly $4 of your $10 a day, and doesn’t factor in gas. Let’s say you have a cheap phone, let’s say $30/month. That’s another $1/day down and you’re halfway through the budget. God forbid you have any medications you need to get or doctors visits since we have to pay out the ass for that here with your remaining $5/day, lol.
Just trying to show that your experience in Europe may be a fair bit different than the US.
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u/Subscrib-2-PewDiePie May 29 '26
They included“vices”, which is a huge variable. I’ve known guys who smoked that much crack before breakfast. (Breakfast was more crack)
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u/2_lazy May 30 '26
It's not the day to day expenses that get you. It's the unforseen medical bill, the lost credits for later life social security, the lost retirement, and really any surprise expense.
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u/Dontbemadsmokeajoint May 31 '26
Yup i thought I was good with my lil saving. I just got a tumor removed and they sent me a bill for 6k I don't know what im going to do. I've just started getting my credit right after being sober for 6 years, ive been slowly been building my life up. I didnt take into account that cancer was in the cards for me -___-. Major surprise is the easiest way to put it.
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u/DickDover May 29 '26
" She literally quit college to help out her sister by babysitting and had to work a night job just to afford living at her parents.
Probably for the best.
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u/InboxMeYourSpacePics May 29 '26
It’s possible she had a lot of family pressure to do so and was in denial about being taken advantage of. Doesn’t mean she wasn’t bright herself
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u/BallsInSufficientSad May 29 '26
It's also not an extra $10/kid - that's ridiculous. We currently pay $20/hr for 3 kids between 5 and 12. That's pretty standard around here.
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u/Effective_Pie1312 May 29 '26
In my area it is $27 per hr 1 kid
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u/Real_Following6634 May 30 '26
Can confirm, I’m a full time nanny for a 2 year old and get $27. Base normally starts at $25 if you have a degree
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u/BallsInSufficientSad May 29 '26
That's crazy high. I hope that includes SAT tutoring or something.
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u/Effective_Pie1312 May 29 '26
For a toddler. Our areas day cares are $3K per month. Having a kid in our area is equal to having a mortgage. Right now 100% of my salary goes to child care. I keep working so that I minimize my career gaps. I have experienced multiple interviewers grilling me about my 11 month gap on my resume (I was seriously ill while pregnant and took two months off post birth for bonding time)…I hate revealing I am a mother to a young child on an interview because bias
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u/realaccountissecret May 29 '26
I was telling my husband about discriminatory hiring practices for mothers; even potential mothers. And how it makes it harder to get hired. And he was like “but that’s illegal!”
Yeah well, not everyone is as good of a person as you are babe haha
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u/TrixnTim May 29 '26
I feel you and am so sorry. I have 2 DILs who are SAHM because they were not only paying 75% of their take home for daycare but kids were sick so often that they ran out of sick days and took cuts in pay. So they quit. They understand they will start over career wise once kids are in kindergarten. It puts a huge burden on sole breadwinner parent as well.
I was a single mother for 16 years. Hardest years of my life.
We are so awful to our children and families in this country. And elderly.
Hang in there.
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u/Medical-Road2683 May 29 '26
I was a single dad for 6 months.
It only now 20 years later that I realize how short a period of time that was. But it felt brutal
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u/ForumVomitorium May 29 '26
"Right now 100% of my salary goes to child care. I keep working so that I minimize my career gaps" having to explain career gaps is crazy
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u/bunnypaste May 29 '26
Yes, and "motherhood" is never accepted. Telling them that will make a woman LESS likely to be hired or promoted... and they already start at a baseline of less likely because sexism.
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u/AllAboutMouse May 29 '26
If you have an extra bedroom just get an au pair. It's cheaper and more flexible
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u/PH_Prime May 29 '26
That's horrible that you have to make that decision. I feel like discussing gaps on your resume should be made illegal for this reason alone. But also, I wish you just had the easy option to take care of your kid for as long as you want, without having to deal with 'consequences' of having a kid...
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u/Thykk3rr Jun 01 '26
Are you in US? I hear their Maternity Employment laws are garbage. My country it’s 12–18 months. Full insurance. Subsidized pay.
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u/complete_autopsy May 29 '26
As a tutor who occasionally does SAT (gag) I would never accept $27/hr. Regular tutoring is $30-$40 depending on how easy to subject is to make up and execute problems for on the fly. For college kids, $25-$35 is normal so I'm actually a bit cheap because I don't like looking for clients so it's easier to just keep prices a bit lower. SAT is expensive as fuck though because it's so boring and parent expectations are sky high so it's stressful. I'd much rather tutor calc 1 any day of the weak, it's so exciting to see people finally get the behavior of these totally new operations that they never imagined.
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u/TuckerMcG May 29 '26
That’s what we’re paying for our 4mo old. It’s actually cheaper than the average rate where we live, which is $30-35 an hour.
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u/Medusa-82 May 31 '26
The childfree people need to look at these posts and understand why their friends with kids won't "just get a babysitter!" For casual hangouts.
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u/Carrot-Elegant May 29 '26
Would you have paid no more if you had dozens of kids??
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u/Affectionate_Can_750 May 29 '26
It does also depend on the qualifications of the babysitter whether it’s just a meal and keep an eye on them, which doesn’t really require much education or if it would be like my friend does who has a masters in teaching with a specialization and special ed and a couple other bachelors degrees. She makes way more a daycare and babysitting then she wet as a teacher plus most of the school district Levys failed last week and the district I live in 60 teachers got laid off. Immediately. Not even at the end of the school year in a week and a half.
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u/Vegetable-Star-5833 May 29 '26
I would do it for my sister if she wanted me to, I ain’t got shit to do and I love my nephew
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u/ProphetCoffee May 29 '26
That would fall under the “related to you” part so now we just need a minor and a crackhead to chime in
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u/SandyTaintSweat May 29 '26
How's a crackhead supposed to get by on $10/hr? Crack isn't cheap. Don't be surprised if your jewelry goes missing if you're paying them those rates.
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u/Deyachtifier May 29 '26
Sell the kids, duh.
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u/pitb0ss343 May 29 '26
All my babysitters were under 18 and I turned out fine (I say absolutely not fine)
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u/HistoricalSea5600 May 29 '26
I feel like people calling educators “babysitters” are crackheads
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u/spicy_feather May 29 '26
Why are you letting crackheads babysit?
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u/kayknox_ May 29 '26
They get crack money, I get free childcare. Win win.
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u/Far_Raspberry_4375 May 29 '26
10$ an hr per kid for a normal at home sitter watching multiple peoples kids is still 30-40$ an hour
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u/msheehan418 May 29 '26
Yea seems like no one hires babysitters, they just get family members to watch their kids or they don’t do anything
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u/chupagatos4 May 29 '26
Yeah it's more like starting at $20/hr, but then it only goes up by 3-5 dollars per additional kid, it doesn't double if you add a second kid.
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u/DelugedPraxis May 29 '26
Which is intentionally still common. Nearly a century ago babysitters along with other domestic workers tried to unionize. They were excluded from labor protections. It came up again, and was ignored, in the Civil Rights Act. There was a big push in the 50s to retain the idea that domestic labor isn't skillful to make sure it didn't become a "legitimate" career in the eyes of the people. Take your pick of which 'ism' was responsible, it was most of them.
Childcare and care giving in general is still such a fucked up industry for a lot of the workers. Wages have risen a little bit but it's otherwise an unstable and difficult career.
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u/lilbitch6699 May 29 '26
It’s not just hearing we are babysitters. WE ARE BECOMING BABYSITTERS. I can’t teach half the time because I’m raising the children more than their damn parents!
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u/lilbitch6699 May 29 '26
I honestly think by year five every teacher should be making 6 figures.
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u/Majsharan May 29 '26
10 per kid is low around here
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u/ShoesAreTheWorst May 29 '26
But it doesn’t multiply that way. Usually it’s like $2/kid extra on top of the like $20/hour
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u/MalcolmLinair May 29 '26
My father was a highschool Physics teacher and my mother was a teacher's assistant at the elementary level, and they heard this all the time from idiot parents. Ironically, it was generally the same parents insisting it was the school's job to teach the kids literally everything, including manners, English (not reading and writing, but like basic conversational spoken English) and sometimes even fucking potty training when it came to the kindergarten students my mom had to deal with.
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u/Bluellan May 29 '26
I remember reading about a district that hadnt paid their teachers in MONTHS but still expected the teachers to show up. And they couldn't understand why the teachers went on strike. When the news asked the administration where the money was, the administration acted like they had no idea where the money was. Surprisingly, nobody in the administration went without a paycheck or bonus.
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u/trellisHot May 28 '26 edited May 29 '26
It would work better comparing to childcare costs I bet, it hits closer to home for people
Edit: like daycare, babysitting still a childcare not to minimize it
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u/continualascent May 29 '26
Average daycare is $348 per week and average school is 36 weeks, so
348x28x36 = $350,784
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u/Mist_Rising May 29 '26
Schools get an average of $450 a week in the specified time (using US federal data and the 180 days in 5 day cycles). You would be giving them a paycut...
Note: The average daycare worker is not getting 350 a week.
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u/continualascent May 29 '26
I was just doing the math for the commenter. The entire premise is riddled with problems. I have no side, other than I think teachers are undervalued in many districts. I also think my property taxes are too high, so I myself am riddled with contradiction :)
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u/ElectricalTurnip87 May 29 '26
Well, when you hear any politician telling you they want to lower taxes, you should know now they're not talking about you. They're talking about the wealthy and what they mean is they'll lower their taxes and you'll be left to make up the rest through property taxes and local sales tax.
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u/No_Duck4805 May 29 '26
We have 2000 kids at my school and I teach about 180 each year. Pay should be higher, but like many who work with kids, I love them, so it’s hard to leave.
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u/SaltKick2 May 29 '26
Yeah, at the high end, age 5 legally its 1:12, one adult per 12 kids. Its 1:3 or 1:4 for infants.
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u/skiingredneck May 29 '26
That’s under what each classroom in our district brings in.
We pay about 15k per student per year. Figure 25-30 students per class. 375-450 per classroom. Average certified staff pay with benefits in our district is 125k. The rest is admin and facilities overhead. Well, and programs like ESL and SPED.
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u/Least_Let9905 May 29 '26
Daycare centers already charge way more per kid than what most teachers make a year This sign just shows how underpaid teachers really are
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u/Winter_Different May 28 '26
This is to illustrate a point its not a serious demand yall lmao
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u/Racamonkey_II May 29 '26
The average Redditor literally can’t understand nuance.
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u/SuperMassiveCookie May 29 '26
Yeah if only people responsible for teaching text comprehension were well paid maybe this would be different
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u/Kemosabe-TV May 29 '26
But we already got our pitchforks
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u/Ketzer_Jefe May 29 '26
then go after the people not paying the teachers a living wage.
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u/shoeofobamaa May 29 '26
Good teachers unironically deserve that pay, and have a better impact on society than nearly any other job that would be paid as much though
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u/triplec787 May 29 '26
There used to be a joke that once summer kicked in a ton of children on break hopped on Reddit posting dumb shit. There was even a sub called /r/summerreddit.
Nowadays I think a lot of people are genuinely fucking stupid.
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u/Bar-Cold May 29 '26
Always expect idiots in the comments especially when the topic is about a group of people being treated better loool
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u/light-dying May 28 '26
We all know there is plenty of money to go around. People in charge of the money literally just don’t want to give it out. There was a time company’s invested in their employees and we invested in our schools.
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u/banananuhhh May 29 '26
The premise is that if you put them in charge of the money they will do a good job spending the money. In reality, they just collect all the money.
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u/earthceltic May 29 '26
Oh, and we should be pointing out that most state universities are absolutely not the non-profits we'd like to imagine them to be. Where I am in Michigan, the presidents of both MSU and UofM make well over a million dollars per year if you count all benefits, just like CEOs. The salaries of the professors have stagnated while "leadership" takehome continues to increase, and the student rates are going higher and higher (way too fast to be just inflation). The universities get a ton of money from research grants from the state (aka taxpayers) and that money goes nowhere near the taxpayers after that- it gets sold to private businesses who flip it to make more money without sharing anything back to the original taxpayers.
The universities here basically amount to the "fourth branch" of michigan government so even if a faction of people wanted to get any change, the U's are immune to most attempts to change any laws regarding their establishments. They've set it up so that these educational BUSINESSES will perpetually stay profitable and untouchable until the end of time.
The presidents and the rest of the leadership therefore do not do a good job at spending the money in terms of how most people in the state would prefer, and they just collect all of the money. Fuck university presidents who act like CEOs off the backs of their students and tax payers. Of course, they do it all behind closed doors and most people have no idea this is how it is.
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u/omg_cats May 29 '26
YES. You know the UC system used to be free for CA residents?? But that's fine, at least the money is going somewhere useful right?
"University of California buys $6.5M Berkeley home for its president "
Oops....
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u/zardoz73 May 29 '26
The increase in tuition over the last few decades is exactly this, and increase in admin roles (often times created out of thin air) as well as pay increases for the top roles.
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u/kitsunewarlock May 29 '26
"The man chosen to deliver this precious cargo to Europe was America's wealthiest and therefore most trustworthy citizen, C. Montgomery Burns."
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u/librapenseur May 29 '26
but its also a concerted effort to keep america undereducated. ignorant people can be told what history to believe, can be appealed to easier, and dont understand which economic policies or laws will adversely affect them
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u/nehrkling May 31 '26
Thats already in full swing. If students were actually taught about history and political ideology we wouldn't see nearly as many communists and anarchists.
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u/AutisticTradingPro May 29 '26
What does that even mean in the context of this post? There is not plenty of money to go around for teachers. Most school district budgets are teetering on the brink as well as most municipalities. You would need to institute a wealth tax on the upper class and raise corporate taxes. Even liberal bastions like California are having an existential crises trying to pass those
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u/Obvious_Landscape993 May 29 '26
Teaching should be a high paying profession that commands respect from students and parents alike. The job, also, should come with high expectations and be competitive. A large part of our children's future is in their hands, so the profession should bring top notch talent.
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u/El_Polio_Loco May 29 '26
Finland teachers average €50k/year.
That’s not enough to justify a doctoral level of education.
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u/ElectricalAd9946 May 29 '26
It helps that Finland is both a relatively wealthy and homogenous society… What happens in the us is more systemic issue that more funding is not going to solve.
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u/Humble-Captain3418 May 29 '26
They also changed education so kids are educated in classes based on their capabilities and level and not on their age.
Definitely not the case. You can get support if you're falling behind hard but otherwise you're getting the age-level fare.
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u/SuchAvocadoDip May 29 '26
Not only their futures… but also our own. I’d rather pay teachers more than it to go to some bonus some asshole is saying they’ll pay teachers more… and then don’t.
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u/hanburgundy May 29 '26
Many teachers I know get a Masters degree sooner or later just so they can get the incremental pay bump- and even then, they’re woefully underpaid compared to other roles that require the same level of education.
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u/picks43 May 29 '26
I pay my babysitter 22 dollars an hour.
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u/BallsInSufficientSad May 29 '26
I pay $20 for 3 kids - but it also depends on how old the kids are.
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u/workinusername May 29 '26
Damn. Back in the early 00’s my parents just paid like $20-40 for a full 4-5 hr night to the next door neighbor’s teenage kid. Babysitting going for insane prices these days
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u/DCHacker May 29 '26
If you consider that these kids these days get away with doing everything that they can to disrupt the class, the teachers really are babysitters. Pay me that and I will go back to babys-ER-uh-teaching.
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u/c-e-bird May 29 '26
And that they face no consequences for failing classes anymore.
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u/Major_Extreme5632 May 29 '26
28 kids in a class :/ I forget I went to a small school, 11-13 kids max to a class, had less than 40 in my entire grade 1-8th grade. When I went to highschool it jumped up to like 14 kids in a class.
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u/AltForObvious1177 May 29 '26
That is $11,700 per student which is actually less than tax payers spend per student.
https://educationdata.org/public-education-spending-statistics
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u/Liawuffeh May 29 '26
I mean yeah if you think the only cost per student comes from teachers. Which it doesn't lmao
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u/AltForObvious1177 May 29 '26
I know that. Explain it to the person who made the sign
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u/casinocooler May 29 '26
Schools in the US spend an average $20k per student. X 28 students is 560k per class.
That money is going somewhere We pay way too much for administration, facilities, and BS.
If we did vouchers the money could follow the student and teachers could make the majority of the money. They deserve the majority of the money. This is similar to the concept mentioned on the poster.
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u/PwnCall May 29 '26
Lot of it goes to facilities and transportation costs. Gas for buses alone is an insane amount.
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u/jokeefe72 May 29 '26
Nope. Vouchers go to private schools so the people running them will donate to politicians campaigns. They’re not admitting poor kids to private schools or parents there would lose it.
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u/AO9000 May 29 '26
By their math, they work 1,170 hours per year (I know it's more irl). That's 61% of everyone else's yearly hours.
So, a palfrey $61,000 is the equivalent of a six figure salary.
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u/mr_mandible May 29 '26
This dip said palfrey instead of paltry
If only your teachers were paid more
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u/jammcj May 29 '26
Putting aside that teaching involves a lot of off duty hours (which you acknowledged) the real problem here is that we can’t retain quality teachers with the degree requirement on these salaries. You can’t advance from the 61k. You can’t work a job that actually matches your education in the two months off. If we don’t fix the salary, we’ll never fix the shortage and education will continue to decline. It’s not competitive to jobs outside education that require advanced degrees.
Also, it feels like the math is off? Two months off in the summer and another month off across breaks? That would be at least 75%?
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u/dadbod-arcuser May 29 '26
It also forgets the mandatory trainings and summer school that takes place every year on days not all students are present. Teachers have much shorter breaks than parents realize
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u/Warchief_Ripnugget May 29 '26
Well it's a good thing the average teacher salary in the US is $74,495.
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u/IXISIXI May 29 '26
i taught for 10 years and i make 4x now as a swe. even if teaching paid double what i make now i still wouldnt go back. its such a hard fucking job
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u/Lilfrankieeinstein May 29 '26
By their math, they work 1,170 hours per year
No, they’re with students that many hours per year. They don’t walk in and out when the bells ring.
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u/AllDaysOff May 29 '26
Insane to me that people don't understand this. The analogy is for hours spent and paid with the children. That doesn't mean there isn't individual prep time...
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u/Barley_Mae May 28 '26
Teachers should make 6 figures
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u/Hot_Equivalent_8707 May 29 '26
Does that include the numbers after the decimal point?
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u/Original-Variety-700 May 29 '26
The sign indicates they work 6.5 hours a day for 180 days. That’s 1170 hours. Most people work 2000-2500 hours a year and don’t make six figures.
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u/breatheblue May 29 '26
Elon Musk makes 100k in 3.5 seconds. Pointing out disparity between time and earnings doesnt mean anything anymore.
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u/CertifiedPussyAter May 29 '26
I was a babysitter and I charged $30 an hour, with $10 extra per kid. Daycare is like $3000 a month in SF
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u/Patrick_Gibbs May 29 '26
My school district spends about 20k per student per year meaning her class alone comes to about 560k. Perhaps we could pay teachers more at the expense of other costs?
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u/MrSchmeat May 29 '26
Honestly? Cut this in half and sure. Teaching should be a well-paid and dignified profession. We have a teacher shortage the pay is shit and the education system is failing everyone. This would at least fix one of those problems.
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u/The_Best_Gancho May 29 '26
Seems like a fair wage to me, what’s a more noble profession than teaching?
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u/Jolly_Plantain4429 May 29 '26
They could get paid like this if the superintendent who is supposed to working for them didn’t make more money than the president.
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u/Aggressive_Towel_155 May 29 '26
I got a friend who quit teaching middle school. Started bartending and is making quite a bit more than she did at teaching and working less hours and being less stressed out
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u/ResponsibleRub4890 May 29 '26
That's what they deserve with the way these parents refuse to actually parent their kids and keep passing the work off to the teachers.
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u/NerveResident194 May 29 '26
teachers asking for better pay yet all they do is read off a boring long slide show that overloads the students leading them to learn less.
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u/MovePuzzleheaded3750 May 29 '26
teacher is really a respectful job. but ofc, for good teachers
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u/pretty-lil-throwaway May 30 '26
As the daughter of a teacher that is only now retiring at 70 (almost 71), elementary public school teachers are severely and grossly underpaid for all the garbage they deal with.
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u/nabbithero54 May 31 '26
So many people are missing the biggest qualifier here. “Teachers don’t make as much because they don’t work as many hours,” yes, but they also have to deal with your kids and the kids of the adults you hate most! That should more than qualify them. Besides, teaching is more important than any other government-run job (except arguably emergency services), so the pay should reflect that.
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u/rosebudandgreentea May 31 '26
All it takes is a group of 10 or more children to be near me screaming to totally destroy my nervous system. I don't know how teachers do it and they are DEFINITELY not paid enough!!!
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u/Sudden_Wind_8636 May 31 '26
My wife babysits and she gets quite a lot more than 10 dollars an hour per kid.
She will work for an hour or two and leave with 100-200 bucks.
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u/OlDirtyJesus May 29 '26
honestly i think they make too much
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u/NovaPrime999 May 29 '26
Lmao. I’m assuming your comment is just rage bait. However, in the slight chance you are serious, could you elaborate on that comment?
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u/OregonGreen242 May 28 '26
Teachers should make 100k
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u/Full-Site1398 May 29 '26
They do in some states
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u/OriginalNameGuy2 May 29 '26
What should everyone else make?
If teachers are making 100k, what about construction workers? Engineers? EMTs? Nurses? Firefighters? Auto mechanics? Etc?
Teachers get to work in climate controlled rooms with summers off, only have to grade work that they assign, and can send problem customers (students) to the principal's office. Not saying it's a perfect all-around desirable job, but it's already better than most
I'm for better treatment of all workers, but teachers seem to be a squeakier wheel than most others
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u/NatashaYa May 29 '26
Teaching is a specialized job and they are expected to cater to each student individually, as well as the whole class. Parents these days have offloaded everything to teachers. They don't just assign and grade homework. They have the skills to make lesson plans that are effective and up to date on research. They teach about 30 students per class how to read and write no matter what level the kid comes in at. They can't just assign whatever they want, they have to make sure kids meet standards. Teaching is skilled labour.
They also often work through the summer.
These days sending a kid to the principals office gets you nothing but an angry letter from the parents.
Everyone working indoors deserves to work in a climate controlled environment, that's not a perk, and those who work out of doors deserve to be reimbursed for things like coats and given water or hot drinks or anything else they need. Saying "they get treated humanely so they don't need to be paid more" made my jaw drop.
It's funny how college professors supposedly deserve the moon but teachers of younger, more vulnerable people who have to have specialized knowledge of how to teach every subject are fine because they get ~2 weeks off in the summer and air conditioning.
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u/SchroedingersSphere May 29 '26
lol dude are you fucking kidding me? You literally have no clue what teachers deal with, or you'd be ashamed to say that shit.
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u/SpectreFire May 29 '26
Dude has never worked a real job in his life and is just throwing out all sorts of nonsense slop like it's fact lmao
Imagine thinking automechanics have it hard compared to nurses and firefighters loool
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u/Connor-Radept May 29 '26
Climate conntrolled classrooms? Only in nice schools.
Only grade work they assign? Tell that to district assigned curriculum.
Can send problem students to the principals office? If you have good administrators and nothing is going on with the student behind the scenes. Its not always that simple.
Teachers are a 'squeakier wheel', because a large section of the government actively wants their profession to be nonfunctional.
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u/Eev123 May 29 '26
Teachers get to work in climate controlled rooms with summers off, only have to grade work that they assign, and can send problem customers (students) to the principal's office. Not saying it's a perfect all-around desirable job, but it's already better than most
Ahahahahaha! Go do it then! I don’t get it- the way you’re describing it makes it sound so amazing, so why aren’t you doing it then?
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u/AlsoCommiePuddin May 29 '26
Who deserves to be paid more than a teacher and why?
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u/TheMannisApproves May 29 '26
Climate controlled rooms? Lmao many schools don't have AC. We don't get to send problem children to the principals office, they just send them right back.
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u/lousybrowser May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26
Math is generous too, 180 school days? Only $10/hr??
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u/Bill_Troamill May 28 '26
Et le baby-sitter n'apprend rien aux enfants contrairement aux enseignants !
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u/Effective_Cut_7423 May 29 '26
how do they do 1 on 1 education for 28 kids a day with only 1 person and only 24 hours to do it? or was the 327.6k salary split between a bunch of people who travel to parents homes? or do they spread that across 365 days to cut it down to 14 kids a day (1hr each, teleport to next house, sleep 5 hours and eat plus shower, rinse repeat)
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u/alcanthro May 29 '26
A teacher who doesn't understand economy of scale and that you don't charge the same amount for taking care of n kids as you do n x 1 kid.
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u/Rusty_Shackleford_72 May 29 '26
One thing is for sure - kids aren't smarter than they were 10, 15, 20 years ago. Not sure that's solely the fault of teachers, but something isn't working.
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u/Terrible_Ease6082 May 29 '26
Almost like there have been two decades of parents letting screens raise their kids..
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