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Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief
Please... I was on my local school board for 10 years and know the system.
Someone just graduating college, with most positions on 180 day contracts with every Holiday and break off... make 36k. I get it, be outraged, but the $36k which is similar to many states in the Midwest is Step 1 on a salary scale. Each additional year they get a step increase in addition to an association negotiated raise on those steps. Also, many have the Cadillac of healthcare plans and their retirement benefits are unbelievable. These benefits in costs equal about 35-50% of their pay.
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Retirement is good because of its employee matching and the way in which it is handled (i.e. left alone from as much government influence as possible). Insurance is good but for the "Cadillac" plan the monthly deduction out of paycheck is quite astounding. The step down is usually a couple hundred bucks, a step over (post grad credits) is where the bigger raises come from. And then many schools cap the steps after a certain amount of years. So no yearly raise after 15 years unless you get more post grad credits. And in the districts I worked there was no guarantee of any other raise. The districts would try to raise the base each year but it didn't always happen and again, a very small amount.
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Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy
There are also a lot of stipends to be had. 5k for a HC and 3K for an asst coach around here. I have no clue how that would end up breaking down hourly.
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I was an assistant coach for a year. Made 1500 for middle school basketball and 1500 for variety. The breakdown to an hourly wage was definitely not worth it. Now that school was on the low end of compensation by far but still. I have a buddy who is at a relatively big school in the area and he's a head coach and he puts in a lot more work than he gets paid for.