33k - 65k for a job that is about 30 hrs a week and we’ll say circa 85 days annual.
Compare and contrast that with a job that’s a 40 hour week with 25 days annual leave.
So you’re taking your base salary of 33k.
You equate that into a 40 hr standard week. That become 44k.
You then look at the annual leave perk. A standard job Mon - Fri job you have probably 250 working days, a figure taking into account bank holidays and public holidays etc.
So the standard worker probably has 225 working days, 25 annual leave days.
Teachers have 165 working days, 85 annual leave days.
So we then factor in working days. That probably ramps up the basic salary that should be benchmarked against your normal worker from 44k to 60k.
So the effective starting salary for a teacher is 60k.
Do the same for the top end of the scale and it’s a salary of 120k without every having to make any progression in your career.
And that’s before you even factor in pension entitlements and job security.
So a teacher’s salary is 60k-120k if you imply the same working standards an average full time employee. And that’s on the conservative side. I note from doing a quick search, it seems to be 35-70k with a number of additional salary payments depending on their educational qualifcations. So you’re probably looking at teacher’s salary being 70k-130k. Not many industries will give that to an entry level employee who never even has to climb the career ladder.
And that’s not enough, they consistently strike, hold the people to ransom, screw the children they are paid extortionately well enough to educate. They are utterly, utterly shameless. Their conduct over the past number of months has been a new low, even for them. Cynically using a health crisis to further their own interests as healthcare workers suck up all the shite thrown at them in the meantime.
It’s times to cut the teachers and pay the nurses.