Fed up with low pay and nearly meaningless salary bumps, an Arizona teacher posted her salary to Facebook alongside an exasperated message, according to multiple reports this week. Whispering Wind Academy teacher Teacher Posts Salary on Facebook, Asks Why She's Paid so Little Even With a College Degree wrote her pay was not a living wage.
A picture of paperwork, apparently revealing her pay of $35,490 per year, showed her getting an additional $131 in pay the next year after taking developmental classes, according to Arizona newspaper The Republic. Milich has since deleted the photo.
"This is my new pay after taking a few professional development classes," she wrote in the post, via The Republic. "I actually laughed when I saw the old salary vs. the new one. I mean really, I need a college degree to make this? I paid 80,000 for a college degree, I then paid several hundred more to transfer my certification to Az."
Milich continued later: "The reality is without my husband’s income I could NEVER be an educator in this state! I’m sad for my single mom teacher friends working three jobs to make ends meet! Something must be done."
The post from Milich drew enough attention to warrant an apparent response from Arizona's governor, Doug Ducey. In a radio interview he said: "Our teacher pay last year went up 4.4 percent to an average pay of $48,000. Now, that's not enough and I want to see it rise from there," according to KMOV.
"My hope is that our state takes a hard look at this crisis. There are vacancies all over the state because they can't find teachers," Milich told the Republic.
Across the country in 2016-17, teachers made an average salary of $58,950, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics. Arizona was well below the national average at $47,403.
Teachers in West Virginia recently went on strike that resulted in them earning a 5 percent pay raise.
Teacher Posts Salary on Facebook, Asks Why She's Paid so Little Even With a College Degree
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my wife is a teacher she is always stress out. backd up with school loans she makes 48k in NYC barely could survive. i had to take over her school loan payments. very unfair spend over 70K to be a teacher 6 years education to be underpaid. the only people makes real money are the principals, counselors.
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My sister raised her hand and said, "I have a Doctorate." That caused chaos at the meeting. Then she said, "Don't worry, I know what your plan was. I'm retiring in 12 months with a Doctorate pension." Then she said, "I want that position you have or you can keep it open until I retire, because no one gets that job but me." Since the teacher that the whole thing was planned around, no longer qualified; they kept the job unfilled and my sister laughed until she retired.Last edited: Mar 16, 2018
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Thats ridiculous. The school i went to is 75% farm community. The town has a population of 5-6,000.
I had this 12th grade english teacher, the guy was my favorite teacher of all my schooling. He had been teaching full time for about 6 years maybe a little less when I finally got to him. He was making 75k a year.
I dont know if it has anything to do with it, or if other schools across the country make teacher salaries public. But in PA anyone can see any teachers salary.
But even with making 30k more than NYC, its still not enough. No amount in my opinion is enough to set the future adults of the earth up with success, to the best of your abilities.Steel Dragon and rabbiporkchop Thank this. -
The problem is, in my estimation, only a third of teachers nationwide seem to want to teach what should be taught. The rest want to promote various socialist agendas developed by administrators, and that they also agree with. I at least hope it's these teachers who are paid the least. But if they want to REALLY teach math, advanced math, reading, literature, social studies, us history, world history, and real science, then I'm all for paying them well. Otherwise I have no use for them and they are doing more harm [to the future USA] than good.
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Whatever they're getting paid it certainly is not enough.
In my day, it was nothing to get slapped into compliance, now if you lay a hand on a kid. The very least would be you'll loose your job.
In your sisters case, Good For Her!!Steel Dragon and bzinger Thank this. -
Raise pay levels.Steel Dragon and bzinger Thank this. -
Sucks to be a teacher in Arizona. My daughter teaches here in Canada and earns double that and then some teaching at a private school, even in the public system she earned $77K annually.
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My wife teaches here in Oklahoma, and the pay is ridiculously low. She’s on her 18th year teaching, and has a masters degree. Her passion is teaching reading and she wouldn’t dream of doing anything else, but the pay is an absolute insult.
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