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Hmmm... That roughly equates to about 36 000 dollars canadian. It's better than the average teacher, and you get to play all day. I don't get any of the gripes.

Average for teachers in Canada is just below $50k.

lliu wrote:
Hmmm... That roughly equates to about 36 000 dollars canadian. It's better than the average teacher, and you get to play all day. I don't get any of the gripes.

Cost of living differances would be the primary one, it generally much higher on this crowded Island.

For comparison the Average UK salary is circa £29k.

 frozenwastes wrote:
Average for teachers in Canada is just below $50k.

On myBlueprint it shows up as $36 000. This is a government run website.

 notprop wrote:

lliu wrote:
Hmmm... That roughly equates to about 36 000 dollars canadian. It's better than the average teacher, and you get to play all day. I don't get any of the gripes.

Cost of living differances would be the primary one, it generally much higher on this crowded Island.

For comparison the Average UK salary is circa £29k.

I wonder how that would drop if you took London out of the equation though? Certainly in the north of the UK, I shouldn't think it is even two-thirds of that.

lliu wrote:

 frozenwastes wrote:
Average for teachers in Canada is just below $50k.

On myBlueprint it shows up as $36 000. This is a government run website.

Service Canada wrote:the average employment income figure ($49,877) concerns only the 65% of members of this occupation who worked full-time full-year in 2005. In contrast, the average employment income of those who did not work full-time full-year, generally individuals starting out in their careers, was $28,688

http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/qc/job_futures/statistics/4141.shtml

If you're a actual teacher as your job (full time income rather than just being a substitute and/or working part time) then it's closer to $50k. Since the comparison is being made with running a single employee GW location, which is a full time job, we should use the full time job number.

 Pacific wrote:

 notprop wrote:

lliu wrote:
Hmmm... That roughly equates to about 36 000 dollars canadian. It's better than the average teacher, and you get to play all day. I don't get any of the gripes.

Cost of living differances would be the primary one, it generally much higher on this crowded Island.

For comparison the Average UK salary is circa £29k.

I wonder how that would drop if you took London out of the equation though? Certainly in the north of the UK, I shouldn't think it is even two-thirds of that.

Massively I would have thought.

I have a mate who comes from Stoke, his 36 grand a year makes him look like a millionaire to his mates at home .

He has to rent someone's spare room in London with little chance of getting his own place.

So is this minimal wage? If not, what is?