The 60K average salary number that floats around is well and truly busted. (Although I personally did not contact these organizations so there is a chance this website is also distorting the truth, but it seems like they have done a more thorough job fact-checking than most other sources).
With one of Ontario’s largest teachers’ unions currently in negotiations with the Ministry of Education over future contracts, several numbers have been floated online in reference to the average salary for a public school teachers in the central Canadian province. Some Twitter and Facebook...
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Contacted by AFP, the Ontario Ministry of Education stated that the average provincially funded teacher salary was Cad$90,469 in 2018-2019, and Cad$92,913 for high school teachers. These numbers are based on the salary grids
as reported by school boards for this year.
“The average was calculated by taking the funded salary on each cell of the grid weighted by the number of full-time equivalent teachers on each cell of the grid,” Ingrid Anderson, a spokesperson for the ministry, told AFP in an email.
Pierre Côté, general secretary for the OSSTF, said that the average salary for members of his union was Cad$87,000, a number based on union fee data.
A representative for the
Association des enseignantes et enseignants franco-ontariens (AEFO), another large teachers’ union in Ontario, told AFP that the average yearly salary for teachers in the province was Cad$87,940.