Dear Auggie - I got those figures from the Vancouver Elementary School Teachers Assc. website. You might want to check on it. Not all districts and provinces are the same. Seems to me that I started at about $24,000.00 ten years ago. I'm not exactly sure what it is today or in your daughter's district.

Just the same, its a good second income, but its pretty hard to make ends meet if you are the only wage earner and have a loan to repay. The reason that teachers are mostly women is that men would never put up with the pay or the working conditions. We're trying to improve that. Tell her to hang in there.