Depending on where you're coming from, it's quite doable. Compared to a lot of places out west, the money is better and the cost of living lower. That's been my experience, at least.

It's always a bit hardscrabble during the first few years of one's teaching career. Starting out in 2005, I pretty much lived paycheck to paycheck. (And I don't have a master's).

It's a pretty great state in which to be an educator.