@coldjoint,
coldjoint wrote:
My son's mother in law makes over six figures teaching high school in IL. My son has seen her taxes, he does them. And it is not like it is a secret. She is not shy.
In Illinois (I live here) there is a website where you can see every single public school teachers salary.
Six figures isn't unheard of for a teacher of 30+ years, but it's no where near the mean or median pay for a teacher.
My best friend is a teacher for 5 years now (5th grade) and has tenure. He makes $49,500 (in one of the richest neighborhoods in Chicagoland) and spends a lot of his own money on classroom supplies.