Reply #63: Where are you from? [View All]

[Maestro]

Texas still pays their teachers an average salary that is in the bottom half of the fifty states. My cost of living keeps going up especially my health costs but my salary is stuck. As a result of the economy I haven't received a pay increase in two years. In fact here is my district's pay scale for teachers. Notice that with more years of experience, my salary does not increase anywhere near the speed in which someone is business or basically any other professional field sees increases, although I do have stability in my job.

http://www.irvingisd.net/schedules.htm

And please tell me how journalists get paid less than teachers on the average? Where is there research on this?