No, not your teaching rate. What you really make per hour.
A simple exercise: Take your earnings from a period and divide them by the number hours you worked during that period. Post below. Feel free to do so anonymously if you wish, of course.
*BONUS* Calculate your real raise last March:
1. Real Rate divided by Teach Rate.
2. Multiply that by the % of your increase.
$14.54 - Midtown.
ReplyDelete$15.20 on a given week for me, BEFORE taxes.
ReplyDeleteI'm scared to calculate with it is after.
- ESB
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DeleteJust had a thought...If I take a day off which would be a paid day off for someone with a "real" job (sick, holiday, vacation, etc), that would make my $15.20 before taxes significantly less for that week.
Wow that's depressing.
$15.65 before taxes (same rate I was making at my college job more than a decade ago)
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I had this very argument with management many times. When I was hired in 2008, we had about 30 minutes of "extra" work a week that was not preparation: filling out evals, etc. I was instructed to put this down as prep time (minimum wage) although if I hadn't asked they would have hoped I didn't record it at all. As time went by management asked for more and more work that was not preparation to be considered as "prep time" pay.
ReplyDeleteI had nearly 25 hours of teaching pay time a week, but with prep and all the "extra" work I ended up working 30 or more hours a week. That significantly lowered my hourly rate. It also made it very difficult to fit in a second job to make up for those extra 8-10 hours a week I wasn't getting paid.
I can't say how many times I was told to fill out some forms for students or grade essays or whatever and someone said "you are getting paid for it". Prep time pay is such a scam.
Sorry I neglected to calculate, but I'm sure it's a sad figure!
I am sorry, but Kaplan is a criminal enterprise and you cannot regulate the mafia. This would be like organizing capos in organized crime. See my: You can't regulate a criminal enterprise at Truthout.
ReplyDeletePrivatizing Education in China The Politics eZine – Privatization
http://www.dailycensored.com/privatizing-education-in-china-the-politics-ezine-privatization/
By Danny Weil on May 9, 2013 10:20 am / no comments
In this article Samuel Mao tracks the growth of neo-liberal education in China. Since this time, the criminal syndicate and blood bank for the Washington Post, Kaplan University has made inroads into the country (http://www.kaplan.com/our-programs/higher-education/university-preparation-programs/asia/kaplan-china.aspx) (http://www.kaplanchina.com.cn/).
References
Mok, Ka Ho and Lo, Yat Wai (2007). The Impacts of Neo-liberalism on China’s Higher Eduaion , The journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, Volume 5, November 1: May 2007, Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Bristol.
Kwong, Peter (2006). The Chinese Face of Neo-liberalism, 7th October, 2006.
Li, Li (2007). Healthcare Under Fire, BeijingReview.com: No.10, 8th March 2007.
The National Bureau of Statistics of People’s Republic of China (2007). Consumer Price Index (CPI) kept growth in October.
The Ministry of Education of People’s Republic of China (2003). Report of Education Statistics Volumn 1 No. 26, 27th February, 2003.
Klein, Naomi (2007). The Shock Doctrine: The rise of disaster capitalism, Alfred A. Knope: Canada.
Friedman, Milton (2002). Capitalism and Freedom, ed. 2002. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
See Also
Disaster Capitalism in Brazil’s Education System
Privatizing Education in New Orleans
Privatizing Education in Sweden
New Orleans: Natural Disaster or Disaster Capitalism?
The Impact of Disaster Capitalism on Hong Kong’s Education System
The Impact of Disaster Capitalism on England’s Education System
Disaster Capitalism in the United States
The Shock Doctrine Revisited
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OMG, am I doing this math right? Pay divided by hours? After four years of hard work, I'm only making $12.91 an hour! And I don't even log a lot of my prep time, like when I'm grading essays on the train!
ReplyDeleteI was reviewed, but still haven't seen my pay increase, so I guess I'll just multiply that $14.54 by zero. Woohoo!
ReplyDeleteAbout $14 per hour over two pay periods. I calculated it a couple of weeks ago as such...a lot less than many teaching assistants in the public schools many of whom make $115 per day after taxes.
ReplyDeleteI haven't had a chance to look at a pay stub, but just spitballing I work 26 hours a week, which averages to $16.80 an hour before taxes, after taxes probably closer to 14.
ReplyDeleteThe whole "prep time" concept is a scam, and it's one of the reasons Kaplan is not a serious corporation with a legitimate, professional group of people running it.
ReplyDeleteTeaching is one job. It's not possible to meaningfully prepare for a class that one is not capable of teaching. It requires the same education, background and experience. In fact, it requires a second set of skills (curriculum development, writing skills, computer software knowledge, etc.) to accompany the standard teaching skills. At the very least, it should be compensated at the same rate.
Do other careers get paid one rate to "prepare" to do their jobs and then another rate to actually do them? Are the Kaplan execs who come into the schools to present what the corporations future plans are paid at a different rate to prepare for those meetings and then report on them? They expect teachers to take on two different rates for doing the exact same process. Are they paid different rates for writing email, printing memos or otherwise engaging in efforts that are tangential to their job description? Teaching not a piecework job. Two rates is an illogical and, frankly, insulting system.
teaching rate at Kaplan France went from 16€/hr (including preparation) to 21€/hr just after first union election!
ReplyDeleteteaching rate at Kaplan UK still 14£/hr as far as I know...