so for comparisons sake you need to compare say a teacher in the public sector with say an instructor in the private sector?
like a fitness instructor they can earn anywhere between £16k - £50k but you don't need a degree to do that
there aren't many like for like comparisons with teachers so its not so easy to do.
i suppose you could compare our admin staff but they aren't on the same pension we are and the pay is the same as private.
i suppose if you look at medical professionals to be honest the same people work in both private and public, but from my understanding there is a lot more cash in the private sector
i believe a civil pilot for virgin earn smore than a RAF pilot.
there isn't really a private police force or fire service, and the only private army i can think of is mercenaries, but they earn alot more than the the average squaddie.
i just get the feeling that no matter what is said your mind is made up; i agree that public sector requires some adjustment to pensions. but if you take into account my time spent in education and then compare it against say a doctor who only spent 1 more year in uni than i did but you add the teacher training on which is pretty much unpaid work. qualification time is around the same. yet their salaries are almost double and people don;t seem to mind them striking.
i do my job becuase i enjoy it, i get alot of satisfaction from it and i like the job security for now and the future. i know what i signed up for and thats what i expect (within reason) at the end.
people refer to the head teacher salary etc headteachers account for a very small percentage of teaching staff. not everyone does their full stint, infact in the 8 years i've been teaching i've only seen 4 teachers retire who've clocked up more than 30 years service.
if we're hittign public sector pay and pensions why not look at the armed forces? no one wants to do that as its not going to make anyone popular. so much easier to hit the front line staff.
if its going to be changes made it has to be done across the board that means everyone, mp's, armed forces, civil servants etc
i'm just sick of being the easy target, gove seems to be at it every week. its one of the few professions that everyone has some experience of (being a student) so everyone feels they're able to tell me how to do my job. i don't walk into a barristers chambers and tell him what i think he should or should not be doing?