re: LA Legislature to address Teacher Shortage using Retirees earning 50%.

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Asking a state teacher retiree to live off of $27,378 annually is beyond comprehension.

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My wife is a teacher and after teaching for 30 years she’s going to get around 45,000ish a year in retirement. It’s a percentage of the average of the highest three years of salary (it increases every year while teaching).

I suspect that $27,000 figure is averaging all the aids and cafeteria workers together with teachers.


Edit:
Actually, the teacher pay really started ramping around 2010ish so maybe retired teachers really are around $27,000 a year in retirement. If so, that figure will increase fast as new teachers retire.