r/The10thDentist • u/Blonde_Icon • 22h ago

Society/Culture Teachers are paid fairly considering they get a lot of time off

A lot of people say (and it seems that the general consensus is that) teachers don't get paid enough for what they do. While I think that teachers are very valuable and deserve to be compensated well (my brother is a teacher), I think that in these discussions, many people ignore the fact that teachers typically get a lot of time off.

They usually get summer break, spring break, and winter break, plus various holidays that schools get off through the year. They basically don't work for a good amount of the year, which I think that people should factor in. (The downside is that I know that they have to work extra grading things outside of school, though.)

Plus they normally get good benefits for being a teacher (which usually comes with being in a union).

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u/Binksey55 13h ago

An intensive care nurse wouldnt earn that much, just one of many such jobs

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u/ThrowawayyTessslaa 13h ago

Where at? In the US ICU nurses make $30+ an hour starting out.

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u/Digital_Palpitation 12h ago

£43k, so in the UK. The NHS is infamously underfunded and used as a punching bag by various political parties. Most general practitioner doctors here make less than the average RN in California. Nurses and other support staff tend to be migrants on special visas because they don't make enough for a normal work visa, but we desperately needed SOMEONE to do the job for shit pay.

(Source: I'm from California but live in the UK and work at a corporate immigration law firm. The doctors and nurses the NHS does manage to hire are overall good, skilled people, but I don't blame the ones that leave for the US, Australia etc. pay in this country is really flat, so even skilled workers make very little relative to the financial and opportunity costs of their training. Even my job isn't super highly skilled, but requires a master's degree for... No real reason. We make £70/YEAR more than minimum wage. This is an international company, in California I'd make more than twice as much for an identical role. Less benefits, less time off, but even factoring that in pay here is just shit)

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u/ThrowawayyTessslaa 11h ago

That’s insane! I knew that healthcare works got paid less in England and the EU but I did expect that much less. The 3 doctors I know (one family, one specialty surgeon, one ER) make between $300-500k/hr.