[Milwaukee, Wisconsin] MacIver News Service – For the first time in history, the average annual compensation for a teacher in the Milwaukee Public School system will exceed $100,000.
That staggering figure was revealed last night at a meeting of the MPS School Board.
The average salary for an MPS teacher is $56,500. When fringe benefits are factored in, the annual compensation will be $100,005 in 2011.
MacIver’s Bill Osmulski has more in this video report.
From our archives: The Mess at MPS:
Any individual who thinks these teacher’s salaries are not just deserved has never been a teacher, let alone a teacher for MPS.
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[...] that the average MPS teacher salary is $56,500, with an average benefits package of $43,505, for total average compensation of $100,005 per teacher. That’s simply more than the job is worth, and more than the district can afford. While [...]
[...] that the average MPS teacher salary is $56,500, with an average benefits package of $43,505, for total average compensation of $100,005 per teacher. That’s simply more than the job is worth, and more than the district can afford. While [...]
[...] that the average MPS teacher salary is $56,500, with an average benefits package of $43,505, for total average compensation of $100,005 per teacher. I’m not saying teaching isn’t a tough job or that teachers aren’t important. But [...]
[...] the money going to? The MacIver Institute tells us where a lot of it’s going: teacher salaries and benefits, which total over $100,000. For the first time in history, the [...]
[...] But the single biggest reason why it’s become so expensive to run MPS is because of the employee costs. The average salary for an MPS teacher is $56,500, and the average benefits package is $43,505, for total average compensation of $100,005. [...]
[...] MacIver’s Bill Osmulski has more in this video report . . . at http://maciverinstitute.com/2010/03/average-mps-teacher-compensation-tops-100kyear/ [...]
So what are the 46K in benefits they are getting? Seems fishy, that’s one amazing health plan.
Cheese_Lover Reply:
March 5th, 2010 at 3:35 PM
I think you mean just over $43,500. I’m familiar with teachers’ health care benefits and pension. That dollar amount seems realistic.
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Wow! Great reporting…unbelievable. It’s time to renew my teacher’s license!