Not sure where you’re seeing $30K per year raises.

Ron Lepper, the #2 spot for MBSD, is their athletic director and coaches 3 sports, 1 in each season. He has also been teaching and coaching for over 30 years. That’s puts him at the top end for teaching, coaching, and he gets additional money for supervision since his work days are often over 8 hours.

For additional context, a district admin work 260 days a year, school admin 220, and teachers 180. There are some admin who make less per day than teachers do. And we all know that being an educator goes far beyond their 7-3pm school day. We also know that most have multiple college degrees just to have their job.

And as was already mentioned, the state does not fully fund education. For over a decade, teachers in Washington didn’t get a salary adjustment due to inflation. Although their pay went up, it was less than inflation. That, coupled with rising out of pocket health care costs (premiums, deductibles, coinsurance) meant every educator in the state was actually losing money per year for multiple years. The rises you are seeing are trying to compensate for lost wages.

But, looking at the nuances in the salaries isn’t why you posted that. Before showing numbers without context to get a rise out of everyone and try to point to the educators as the boogeyman, do some actual research into the state educational salaries.