Teaching Salary Progression

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The video provides a clear and relatable breakdown of salary progression in a specific profession, using on-screen text to highlight key figures and making the information easily digestible for viewers interested in personal finance and career growth.

Summary

The creator details their salary progression as a high school science teacher over six years. They started with a bachelor's degree at $32k/year, then earned a master's which increased their salary to $39k/year. After switching schools and subjects, they reached $60k/year, then $62k/year, $65.5k/year, and finally $67.5k/year, with steady annual increases.

Structure

1Starting salary with bachelor's
2Salary increase after getting master's
3Switching to science and a new school
4Current school salary progression
5Steady annual increases and desired salary
6Trade-offs with coaching and teaching

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Teaching Salary Progression Year 1: $32k/year Year 1.5: $39k/year Year 3: $60k/year Year 4: $62k/year Year 5: $65.5k/year Year 6: $67.5k/year

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Teaching Salary Progression as a High School Science teacher #MoneyHacksTikTokContest #PersonalFinance #paytransparency #miggysmalls

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Transcript

This is my teaching salary progression as a high school science teacher. Keep in mind I'm not including any of my coaching stipends here. So, this is purely teaching salary progression. Starting off, year number one, I only had my bachelors at the time, that was $32,000 a year. And then a year and a half into teaching, I got my masters, which bumped me up to $39,000 a year. Which having masters only making $39, barely $40,000 a year was not going to cut it. So I actually hopped from physical education to science where I'm currently still teaching science. But I went to a new school where I was paying $60,000 a year. So $20,000 pay increase. I did not like that school, but I made some lifelong friends, so it was a good experience. But then I hopped to the school that I'm currently at right now, and that bumped me up to $62,000 a year. The very next year, year number five, I made $65.5,000 a year. But brings me to right now, year six, I am at $67.5,000 a year, getting a steady 2 to 3% increase, which is right on par with what I want to make. But I am also coaching the sports that I love coaching and teaching the classes that I love teaching. So there is a trade-off there, but anyways, for those

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