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Average salary for teachers here in Jersey is about 60k which is both surprising and pleasing to see being that my girlfriend is in school for education. I thought it would be about 20k lower but apparently Jersey is consistently ranked top 5 in terms of teacher salaries. But I did see a lot of states come in with low 40s and even down to low 30s which is just insane to me. I don't know the economics behind it, but it just seems like robbery to me that some get paid that poorly, especially in this country. Then you factor in the funding that's constantly being cut from schools, it's criminal. I just don't understand how education is ever a field where you even consider slashing funding. When we're constantly increasing military funding, spending billions on things we don't need. This country is *** backwards man.