Ever wonder what teachers make?

Tim Petruk - Kamloops This Week Published: April 07, 2011 1:00 PM 
Teachers in B.C. are paid on a grid, depending on how many years of post-secondary education they have completed and how many years they’ve been teaching.  According to the grid under the agreement now in place, teachers in Kamloops are paid anywhere between $47,795 (a first-year teacher with four years of university) to $81,488 (a teacher with a master’s degree and more than nine years of experience in the classroom).  However, most teachers in B.C. went to university for five years, completing three years of arts or sciences followed by two years of education. Teachers with five years of post-secondary education start at a salary of $52,840 and receive yearly raises of about $3,000, to a maximum of $74,353.  Under the agreement, a “year” of teaching equals 195 teaching days.  If a teacher works eight hours for each of those 195 days, they will be paid anywhere between $30.64 and $52.24 an hour, depending on education and years of experience.  The category under which most teachers fall — five years of post-secondary education — begins at $33.87 per hour and maxes out at an extrapolated wage of $47.66.  That said, a lot of teachers put in extra hours organizing and supervising extracurricular activities — none of which is reflected in their pay.