The ‘average’ teacher salary is very misleading. This include part-time teachers, special ed tutors, and substitute teachers. In OC the average teacher salary is $78K, with teachers in Laguna Beach Unified in 2009-10 earned the highest average salary of $93,120. I am not sure if this include only full-time teachers or also part-time teachers.
My friend is a math teacher in Fountain Valley and with 10 yrs of experience he is making more than $80K which is comparable to Engineers with similar experience but they have a lot more vacation and plus a pension. From the article, they had 180 instruction days last year.
[quote=ucodegen][quote=Fearful]What do you expect from CNN. “Linear equations”? “Matrix calculus”? I did my undergrad in physics, and I have to say I could not explain to someone what a linear equation is and how it is different from a non linear equation. Matrix calculus? I suppose I probably would know it if I saw it, but the name does not ring a bell.[/quote]
How about Linear Algebra and Vector Calculus.. they do exist. I can Xerox the cover of some text books. I suspect that the CNN writers decided to exaggerate the field to make the teacher look more ‘special’. I also suspect that the salaries were listed as below the actual. Something is definitely screwy in the article.
I noted a good percentage of Masters degrees, but there was no correlation between salaries and what field of study that the Masters was done in, nor what field they were teaching.
NOTE: Starting salary is listed as $33K, Average salary is $46K.
The mis-capitalization is understandable considering that Caltech stands for “California Institute of Technology”.. which incidentally includes JPL.(http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/)[/quote]
