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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: theking on February 23, 2023, 10:38:31 PM
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...the average home cost $1.5 million so still out of reach for many of them. I mean per hour, those teachers are making about $120/hr on average. but still not enough to sustain for some due to the high cost of living... ???:
Teacher pay was highest in Silicon Valley’s Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District, where teachers earned, on average, about $152,500.
A quick way to adjust pay for cost of living is to calculate the difference between average teacher salary and the cost of the typically priced home. A teacher making $152,500 in Mountain View would have a hard time buying the median-valued home in Santa Clara County, which cost about $1,543,000 at the end of 2022, according to tracking firm Zillow.com. By that metric, many of the best-off teachers are in rural districts where salaries are relatively modest, but home prices are low.
Read more at: https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article272477969.html#storylink=cpy (https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article272477969.html#storylink=cpy)