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NatureOk7726 t1_jbe2mi1 wrote

Mainers get so much more back from taxes than NH residents do. Just look at cooky ‘free stater’ BS and lack funding for schools. Tell me making $38k as a teacher in NH is better. Even in rural districts in Maine pays new teachers more!

Sure you pay some income tax, but property taxes in NH are so insanely high (where they cash out) that living in western ME and grocery shopping in NH you probably make out way better lol

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siebzy t1_jbe4pe9 wrote

Buy your beer in NH, return your bottles in Maine, hell that's profit!

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shopgirl56 t1_jbep539 wrote

I know youre prolly joking but just in case you arent, as a small biz owner, folks need to know you cant return NH cans in Maine for a deposit anyway - there are fines associated actually for doing so.

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siebzy t1_jbex1vk wrote

I'm very well aware that it's illegal and there are steep per-container fines for individuals lol.

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Squidworth89 t1_jbe9lng wrote

ME rural areas pay new teachers more because the state mandated it.

Experienced teachers still get paid shit.

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Itskialikethecar t1_jbebyol wrote

There’s teachers in RSU40 that make over 100k a year.

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SAMBDestroys t1_jbevdwj wrote

Maybe with coaching, and clubs, and a shit ton of extra duties, but no teacher is making even close to a base 100k salary in RSU-40.

https://preview.redd.it/z2hkr77oskma1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=29b335ae11bbcfd98c04fde4463f48325875145a

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Itskialikethecar t1_jbfyeqt wrote

https://preview.redd.it/gow5d21w0mma1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=af9972c985abb4a886f43d5f6db68f283431f9e6

Well here’s the budget from 2022-2023 at the middle school….

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bigspoutwhale867 t1_jbn5fjl wrote

Your sheet includes Salary and Benefits. I believe that means total district cost (health insurance, etc) and not just what the employee is paid

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Itskialikethecar t1_jbfzjsw wrote

And you can click this link to read everything in its entirety.

https://rsu40.org/budget/

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SAMBDestroys t1_jbg1fos wrote

I showed you their school board approved 21-24 collective bargaining numbers. The salaries you showed me were proposed but not necessarily approved. If someone in RSU-40 is making that kind of money, they have a doctorate and we’ll over 24 years of experience. They're still underpaid.

Edit: I said 22-23. It's actually 21-24.

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Itskialikethecar t1_jbg20tf wrote

Several teachers confirmed that’s what they get paid. That’s their budget. I live in the district. Spoke to staff members.

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Squidworth89 t1_jbec4yc wrote

And it prolly took them 30 years to get there. Which is another joke.

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Shilo788 t1_jbg6i13 wrote

That's good, hope more salaries increase. Pay them as professionals and then demand good performance. They live local, so money stays in the local economy, pay people what they are worth. The various workers I dealt with were competent so I pay for that. Maines salaries need to catch up some to the cost of housing. Flowing money into an area via education where teachers, support staff, janitors, bus drivers .ears it all stays local, I see that as opposite of zero sum. It primes the pump some. Tax dollars that come back to the district or county really make a difference in quality of life in an area. I am a woodsy loner and yet admit that.

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