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Petrushka

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3. Oh, no! That would mean a pay cut for teachers.

Thu Mar 20, 2014, 12:29 PM

Mar 2014

West Virginia pays its teacher more than its policemen.

West Virginia Yearly Policeman Pay Statistics
Average Yearly Policeman Salary $23,597 - $35,395
Starting Yearly Policeman Salary $19,433 - $29,149
Top Yearly Policeman Salary $27,761 - $41,641

For more info re: policeman salaries in West Virginia, scroll down at the following link:
http://statetroopersalary.com/WV/1/salary/Policeman-Salary

Considering how much of West Virginia's natural resources are owned, siphoned off, and sold by non-residents, it's little wonder Almost Heaven is a Third World State. And (sad to say), for generations, teachers, themselves, have encouraged West Virginia's brightest to leave the State for greener pastures . . . until not too many of those who remained at home have the capacity, now, to change whatever needs changing.)

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Teachers' salaries must be competitive! [View all] theHandpuppet Mar 2014 OP

At the very least, make teacher pay equal to cop's. TreasonousBastard Mar 2014 #1

Oh, no! That would mean a pay cut for teachers. Petrushka Mar 2014 #3

That's WV. Around here cops make over $100,000... TreasonousBastard Mar 2014 #4

I figure living expenses are higher in your area than they are in West Virginia. Petrushka Mar 2014 #5

Living expenses are part of it, but... TreasonousBastard Mar 2014 #6

In West Virginia, more than 66% of property tax assessment monies goes for schools . . . Petrushka Mar 2014 #7

That would be the first step of many to help such a repressed region. William769 Mar 2014 #2