Average salary for a High School teacher ? (1 Viewer)

[Bongos]

Contemplating doing teaching, but someone tells me they get paid peanuts and others say they get paid quite well?

 

[strawberrye]

The answer to your question can be found in an older thread, http://community.boredofstudies.org/showthread.php?t=289961&highlight=teacher+salary

But generally, the salary for a high school teacher depends on your experience, on whether you teach private/public school and various other factors-hope this helps

 

[Fizzy_Cyst]

Starting salary is currently $59,706
Maximum atm is $89,050 for classroom teacher (salary is determined by experience, not performance atm), Head Teacher / Highly Accomplished Teachers $100k-110k.

 

[cem]

That is the state system. In the private system you can add quite a few 1000s to that.

 

[Fizzy_Cyst]

Yep!

I would be considered an 'experienced' teacher in an independent school operating on a 3-band system, meaning I would be on $100,527

 

[someth1ng]

Honestly, that's not bad. I do remember my teacher talking to me about how much they got paid but as previously mentioned, it does depend on your position etc. I hear that principals can earn up to 150k. But of course, cem and Fizzy_Cyst would be more knowledgeable in this area.

 

[cem]

Yep!

I would be considered an 'experienced' teacher in an independent school operating on a 3-band system, meaning I would be on $100,527

I am an experienced teacher in the private sector and that is a co-ordinator one salary not a full-time classroom teacher - which is what I am. I will go to over 103,000 next March with our next pay-rise as a normal everyday classroom teacher in band 3. I was a co-ordinator 1 until a few years ago and would have been earning that 100,527 had I not given up that position as I wind down to retirement.

Takes about 8 years to reach that figure and then without promotion you stay there and hope the IEU gets decent regularly payrises without having to give up too much in the way of holidays - e.g. in the last 20 years I have had to give up 10 days holidays to PD days for pay rises.

 

[bangladesh]

Average would be around $65k per year.

 

[saysesame]

A to-be first year teacher I know got told that she should expect ~60K.

 

[mlibertino]

What does experienced teacher mean? How many years of teaching would classify you as an 'experienced' teacher?
Thanks in advance

 

[Astro551]

What does experienced teacher mean? How many years of teaching would classify you as an 'experienced' teacher?
Thanks in advance

It works in a number of "steps" I believe. So the document I've linked at the bottom, on page 6 it talks about how you progress to different steps (YT = Year Trained, at Uni I assume). And page 21 shows the the salary for each step. Although this is and old document (2011) you get the idea

Not too sure how many years it takes to reach each level though.



https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/media/downloads/employment/awardcon/schoolteach.pdf#salaries