<p>Salaries for beginning teachers at boarding schools in the U.S., even the “elites” are shockingly low, although the room and board benefit is nice, as well as the tuition benefit for your children. In general, prep school teachers make much less money than public school teachers, and much less money than college professors. They do it for the lifestayle and for the love of teaching. We have done it for 18 years, yes, including a stint at “the elites!”</p>
<p>Tuition at Phillips Andover is around $35K for boarding, $28K for day students. Before tax costs would have to be around $40K+. Housing in Andover is very pricey – if teaching there provides housing, or even an allowance, that’s a huge benefit – maybe worth $30K per year? So, even if salaries are low, the benefits would be better than almost any other teaching job I can think of.</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone! You are great.</p>
<p>Globalist: That’s a really interesting program, but his UVa degree is a JD, it’s 26 years old, and I think the point of the next stage of his life is to be in one place at least until his kids go to college. Hopefully a place that’s not too far from family, which means either Northeast or Washington state.</p>
<p>Some of my favorite teachers from high school had PhDs, too. (I did SYA in Barcelona in 10th grade, still during the Franco years, and its Spanish faculty was AMAZING. The Spanish director hired these great dissident scholars who had been blackballed at the universities for their politics.)</p>
<p>It turns out that a high school friend of ours (and the younger brother of my sort-of girlfriend for a few months when we were 19) is now the head of school at a good boarding school. I’m going to try to get his advice, too.</p>
<p>Yeah, I wasn’t sure if he had to be in the Northeast. I figured though he had a law degree, the Center might be able to help him if he was open to working in the UK. Oh well. </p>
<p>Good luck to him.</p>
<p>Sjmom- you are correct! The benefits are much better, the salaries are worse. Obviously, we have found it to be an ideal lifestyle for our family, otherwise we wouldn’t have stayed with it so long. Most long term boarding school teachers end up buying real eastate somewhere so that they can build up equity in some kind of home, otherwise, you can be in trouble when you retire. Many prep school teachers are former faculty children themselves, or went to boarding school themselves and are familiar with the lifestyle. It doesn’t work for everyone, but it works for us!</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone posted this link, but it is to the employment section of the AISNE (Association of Independent Schools of New England). I am particularly partial to the Walnut Hill School for the Arts where my daughter attended. They are looking for a History teacher with Dorm Parent responsibilities as an option.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.aisne.org/employment/employment.asp[/url]”>http://www.aisne.org/employment/employment.asp</a></p>