All About Teaching
Lexi Burk
Teaching
Out of the many things there are to know about teaching, three of the most important are education, salary, and work hours.
Education
- Complete high school
- Enrollment in college
- Bachelor's degree program
- Teacher certification program
- Eligible to apply for licensure
Salary
- Middle School Teacher earns an average salary of $43,529 per year
- Usually the older you are, and how long you’ve been teaching will depend on how much money/salary you receive
- Hourly rate is usually around $17.81 for a middle school teacher
- The bonus, which is an amount of money added to wages on a seasonal basis, is about $2,430.
Hours
- Teachers aged fifty and older who were employed full time worked more hours per week than teachers who were younger
- Older teachers work 6.7 more hours than teachers in their twenties
- The average work hours per week are ages 20-29: 37 hours per week, ages 30-39: 36 hours per week, ages 40-49: 40 hours per week, and ages 50-59: 42 hours per week