r/MadeMeSmile • u/mustu04 • 8h ago

❤️ those days

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u/Simply_Epic 5h ago

Part of the issue is that they’re effectively unemployed for 1/4 of the year (even though most teachers still do stuff for their job during that 1/4 of the year). Those 3 months aren’t paid time off. It’s unpaid. If it were PTO then they’d have an ok wage (still low, but it’d be much more livable).

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u/3163560 4h ago edited 3h ago

Wait, do American teachers not get paid over breaks?

In Australia we do (rough term lengths)

  • 10 week Term 1
  • 2 week break
  • 11 week Term 2
  • 2 week break
  • 10 week Term 3
  • 2 week break
  • 12 week term 4
  • 6 week break

All of it fully paid.

We do still do a little bit of work during breaks. But mostly you enjoy the majority of that time away from school.

I'm a government school employee, so I get paid fortnightly (~AU$2600 per fortnight after tax)

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u/Blom-w1-o 3h ago

They do. Usually theres an option to be paid only while is in session (so checks are bigger), or spread it out over 12 months.