Canadian teacher and principal salaries and pension packages

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Open Communication
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Canadian teacher and principal salaries and pension packages

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jbiersteker
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Same Pension plan.
Vice-Principals start at the top end of the teacher's scale.
Principals between $105-120 000 (check the infamous "Sunshine List").

Hope this helps!!
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I was making over $100,000 as a classroom teacher. Pension plan was defined contribution, though.
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Wow Shadowjack, where were you working? That sounds a little above a typical Cat. 4
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What are the taxes like? How much are you able to save per year?
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No such thing as a cat 4 out west. If you are elementary, you could (not sure if you still can) start teaching after 4 years, but had to finish your fifth year during summers in the next 3 years.

Middle schools and secondary schools are cat 5 teachers only, unless you were grandfathered in. Those people are mostly gone, or will be gone through the system shortly.

Cat 6 was where I was at, in a snowy place far up north, but still with most of the modern conveniences. I liked it, but distant pastures beckoned us...
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Oh - and the pension plan was defined contribution - most teachers plans are defined benefit, and are very nice...
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Hi Shadowjack,

My wife was from Dawson Creek BC, were you that far north?

Thanks!!
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Further. We drove through Dawson Creek on our way to family down south, though. I did teach in the Peace Country before our more northern northern soujourn though.

Is your wife a UVIC grad? If so, what year?
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Nope, we both graduated from TWU and then she did SFU and I did UBC (though I'm from Ontario)

Thanks!!

PS You're getting up there if you're north of the Peace, its beautiful country
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Yeah, I've been around. My first job saw me travel all over to very small, very remote communities that had you thinking, "Holy Sh**! People LIVE out here?" Students were not too bad though - but teaching was 50% instructing and 50% motivational coach to help the students realize they could succeed at learning (which most of them did, thank goodness!).
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