Remember when the extremely talented yet remarkably ignorant Matt Damon said that teachers made “Sh**y” salaries?
Well, apparently what he meant by “Sh**y” was “Awesome.” I feel ya, Matt. I sometimes accidentally say the exact opposite of what I mean to say too.
From CNS News:
Public school teachers receive greater average hourly compensation in wages and benefits than any other group of state and local government workers and receive more than twice as much in average hourly wages and benefits as workers in private industry, according to a new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Public primary, secondary and special education teachers are paid an average of $56.59 per hour in combined wages and benefits, BLS said in the report released last week.
That is slightly more than twice the $28.24 in average hourly wages and benefits paid to workers in private industry.
Read that last sentence again. The same teachers who pitched a tantrum over the summer about not making enough, make twice that of those paying their salaries. Twice. Someone should tell that to Matt Damon.
