DiGaudio's Math

The sour-graped one continues his tirade:

Including all compensation, the MTEA teacher makes $67,456.97 per year[*]. This includes straight salary, the cash value of health insurance (if he or she had to pay for a comparable policy with the same coverage out-of-pocket), contribution to the employee's pension, dental and vision insurance, and the total compensation to FICA and Medicare.

Including all compensation, for actually doing that teacher's job, I make $7,280 per year. This includes the cash value of health insurance (if he or she had to pay for a comparable policy with the same coverage out-of-pocket), contribution to the employee's pension, dental and vision insurance, and the total compensation to FICA and Medicare, the sum total of which equals ZERO. That is my annual income. I make 10.7% of what the MTEA teacher specified makes, with as much or more education.

Peter "I will bet my house and property I can do any MTEA member's job better than they can" DiGaudio is responsible for 12 students for one hour each (according to the end of this post). He also says he earns $240 a week, meaning he must only work 30 weeks to teachers' 40**. The average Milwaukee high school teacher is responsible for about 150 students for one hour each. At his rate, if DiGaudio had the workload of an MPS teacher, he would be paid $91,000 for his 30 weeks, or $121,000 for 40. (A similar calculation can exist for elementary school teachers, who often teach fewer students total, but teach them five or six subjects daily.)

Or look at it another way: DiGaudio is paid $20 of taxpayer money (the group he works for is paid by Title I dollars under No Child Left Behind) to teach one student for one hour. The MPS teacher--assuming no work during prep, lunch, or at home, since that's DiGaudio's life--is compensated $64 an hour to teach however many students are assigned to her one-hour class. At DiGaudio's rate, if he had a small, small class, he would earn, say, $400 to teach 20 students for an hour.

Want more? The MPS average student-teacher ratio at the high school level (in other words, at what increment of additional students is another teacher*** assigned to a building) is 25:1; however, each teacher teaches for about 5.5 hours a day. We can say that the "student-hours" for a teacher might be the product--137.5 student hours. DiGaudio's student-hours total is 12. Dividing the compensation numbers, the MPS teacher is paid $487 per student-hour (40 weeks; $365 for 30 weeks) . DiGaudio? $809 (40-week rate; $607 for his current 30 weeks).

We can go on and on. Clearly, we can take away two things: DiGaudio is really, really steamed that MPS won't hire him. And, public school teachers are just too danged efficient, since we do his job at a cheaper rate.

* This number should be lower, as Milwaukee-ID10T, whose post this is based upon, missed about $800 worth of employee contributions to average health care.
** Updated 2/7, once I remembered the 30 weeks thing, with updated numbers noted throughout
*** "Teacher" in this case also refers to other members of the bargaining unit, such as counselors, librarians, and tech coordinators, who don't so much "teach" students but still come out of the "teachers" budget line.