Public school teachers like to point to what professional athletes get paid as evidence that Americans do not value our children and that teachers are under-paid. I want to be contrary and argue the point.
Looking just at salaries and not including any benefits, a public school teacher in a state with weak unions might average $45k/year and work for 40 years. That nets out to $1.8 million dollars of wages during their career. Inflation is being ignored for this analysis.
There are approximately 17,000 football players on NCAA sanctioned college teams who graduate every year. 259 of them get drafted. Taking into account a average career longevity of 3.3 years (which is probably extremely generous since many of the players who are drafted never play a day in the pros) and an average annual pay of $2.1 million average, annual salary for those who DO get contracts, that works out an average of $97k of life-time income when diluted by ALL of the NCAA, draft-eligible players who graduated in a give year.
If you follow the logic, an average teacher in a non-union state gets paid NINETEEN TIMES MORE over his/her career than the equivalent athlete who majored in FUTTBALL.
And that comes at the price of bad knees, bad backs, concussions and so on. And unless the athlete invests his money wisely, even the ones who do grab the brass-ring and get a contract will watch their income evaporate through their working years and not last very long into their post-pro lives.
Bad Joe, Bad.
ReplyDeleteDon't confuse me with the facts, I got MY FEEEELLINGS on the line and mah UNION.
Teachers should be paid and regulated by the towns they work for.
That way the cause and effects of their teaching will affect their paycheck.
Michael
My retired teacher sister in law just announced on fb that she voted for the ho. Oh, well I'm not surprised.
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