How much do teachers make daily/weekly compared to other professions?

Whenever I hear complaints about teacher salaries I point out they work less than 10 months a year. Years ago I was talking to a dear friend of mine who teaches elementary ed and when she told me her salary $45k, I said, “If you annualize it you are making $60.” I was basing it on her working 9 months, but many teachers have corrected me that it is 10 months, so ok, I will go with 40 weeks for the exercise we are going to do. It doesn’t matter what number you use, my girlfriend’s reply was, “we do get paid all year.” She just didn’t get it. Luckily, she teaches math to the younger grades.

So here is my math. The average school year is 180 days. 180+20 days for coming in a couple weeks before school starts and staying after the school year end. So, 200 days. For those who are interested that would be 200/5=40 weeks.

Most other jobs lets say 52 weeks in a year-3 weeks for vacation=49. 49X5=245–10 holidays=235 days. Or, in weeks that would be 235/5=47 weeks.

Please check my math and feel free to challenge the assumptions.

So, a teacher who makes $45k makes $1125 a week or $225 a day. If they were working the amount of days most people work that would be $957 a week of $192k.

So, the teachers $1125 a week works out to $52,875 annually if they working as many weeks as many weeks as the average professionals. Use larger numbers, I know plenty of teachers who make $75k, if they worked 47 weeks that is worth $88,125.

Aside from the money question, they get a lot of time off, which is a great perk. Also, let’s not forget that teachers usually get good benefits from pensions to healthcare insurance and more.

What do you think about this? Does how many days they actually work matter? Should it be part ofnthe salary discussion?