[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: "Sheldon T. Hall" <shel at tandem.artell.net>
>Date: 2007/04/16 Mon AM 10:47:58 CDT
>To: 'The Geeks List' <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

>From: Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net>
>[re: teacher salaries]
>>
>> District average - budget divided by head count - $62K
>
>Is that the teachers' actual average _salary_, or is that the entire payroll
>cost, including non-salary things like the employer's part of Social
>Security and Medicare taxes, unemployment insurance, health insurance, and
>other "costs of employment?"

SALARY. Benefits are additional.

http://www.hvrsd.k12.nj.us/district/budget/presentations/BudgetDiscussionDec1.pdf

Slide 14: Salary costs

Slide 18: Benefit costs

>I don't know what teachers get paid here, but I do know that one of the
>touchstones of every local "affordable housing" plan is to make it possible
>for teachers, police officers, firefighters, and other municipal employees
>to live on the island.  Median house prices are something over $600k, so you
>can see the problem.

Our average housing in the three municipalities is around $450K -> $500K

So similar situation here.

Lionel