[WalterBright]

I saw a figure once (they're hard to come by) that the value of the health insurance benefit for WA public school teachers was $36,000/year.

https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/with-a-price-tag-...

https://www.hca.wa.gov/about-hca/school-employees-benefits-b...

Those links provide facts and figures, but no figure on what the value of the employee benefit is.

I'd encourage anyone interested to ask their employer's HR dept what the value is of their employer provided health care benefit, and compare.

[filmgirlcw]

Yeah, my benefits are valued at $22,500 in Seattle at a Big Tech firm. I don’t have children so that impacts the value, but we have a very good benefits package and it’s still 1/3 less than teachers, if the numbers you cite are correct. My take home and stock are obviously ridiculously better than what I could expect as an educator, even with a Ph.D and the highest tier of experience (the CBA cap for non-administrators is ~$120k for the 20-21 school year in Seattle), so I have no regrets, but yeah HR calculates my benefits as considerably less.

[WalterBright]

And the value I cited was just for health care - not including the retirement and all the rest.