FAQ #4: How Did You Earn Such High Teaching Salaries?
[caption id="attachment_3769" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Let the Good Times Roll! [/caption] Depending on where you live and work, teacher pay varies greatly. Occasionally, I get questions about how we managed to earn such "high" teaching salaries over the years. When my wife and I took jobs in LaGrange, Georgia in 2002, we were pleasantly surprised by our combined salaries of $85,000. That seemed like a ton of money at the time because I earned only $18,500 during my first year of teaching back in 1992. Obviously, teacher pay had improved over those ten years. A few years later as we climbed the pay scale, our combined salaries crossed the six-figure salary mark. In 2011, we hit our peak earning with combined salaries of $132,000. Because we're veteran teachers with years of experience on the pay scale, our base pay is a combined $125,000 a year. Take a look at the pay scale below. My wife and I are both in the Prof T-6 col...