re: Livingston Parish 1% tax for teacher raises fails to pass

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There should be some way to know what a career pays before college kids choose majors. Or teachers should come with a side gig built in for the third of the year they are off. Then if they decided to teach and do turnarounds, or whatever, they could feel amply compensated.

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You're joking right?

Every public school system has publicly accessible salary tables for potential/current employees & general public to know salaries of employees in the district.

Also, general Google searches with websites like Glassdoor, LinkedIn, Indeed, etc. can provide an estimated salary for industry/job titles that college kids can look at before choosing a major.

The gap in that logic is that college kids (and some adults in careers) don't look at pay scales based on their geographic location. They see a "Teacher" in Houston, TX starts out at $75K and Denham Springs, LA is $48K, the difference is cost of living is A LOT higher in Houston than Denham Springs, but the individual now expects to make $75K coming out of college and gets hit with a reality of $48K for the market they actually live and work in (which creates the "I want a raise because they get paid more" mentality).

And to tie it locally, it costs more to live in Ascension Parish over Livingston Parish. When we looked for houses in 2014, the same house in AP cost about $15K more than the house in LP. Fast forward in 2022, the gap was $25K more for a similar house.