The average teacher earns about $44,000 while their senior level bosses earn about $500,000. This is rubbing some teachers the wrong way.
Not only are teachers being given pay freezes and/or facing layoffs, but they are also supporting union leadership salaries that have increased, 20% last year alone.
Take Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Between 2010 and 2011. Her salary increased to just over $400,000. Or, Dennis Van Roekel, head of the National Education Association (NEA), his pay went to a little over $360,000.
In addition, when you include the stipends and other reimbursed expenses, their real take home pay would be in the order of $493,859 and $460,060 respectively.
The higher pay is not isolated to these two either. An addition, 600 employees at the AFT and NEA take home over $100,000 according to Gary Beckner, the Association of American Educators Executive Director.
When you therefore compare teachers salaries to executives of unions there is about a 10 fold increase.
The relationship with unions, our current economy, Chicago style politics, a mob type environment or mentality has been explained in detail recently by prophet.tv.
Source article Average teacher makes $44G while their top union bosses pull in nearly $500G | Fox News.
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