[abakker]

For the whole year? If you work 60 hours/week, 36 weeks/year, then you only work ~41 hours/week on average. School years are 180 days, for about 36 weeks. I know that teachers do work during the vacations somewhat, but, they also get substantially more time off than most other professional jobs in the US.

[mcguire]

"Substantially more time off" is probably the wrong way to look at it when you don't get paid for the two or three months off.

[prepend]

I have a choice whether I would like my annual salary paid over 10 months with no pay in the summer or over 12 months. My annual salary doesn’t differ one way or the other.

I think the comparison was median annual income and median days of vacation per year. It doesn’t matter too much if the pay is distributed as a single annual lump sum or paid out every hour.

[abakker]

That's a good point. Really, you could just say that they have a seasonal part time job, but when they do it they are paid like professionals.

This might not be a problem if there were another part time job that really worked well for getting paid in the other months, but that seems difficult.