Elementary-school teacher Brandi Scheiner pulls in over $100,000 dollars a year and is “entitled to every penny of it.” That may seem like an overly-generous haul but Scheiner lives in New York City and she probably makes a difference in the lives of children, right?
Except Scheiner doesn’t actually teach anymore. She isn’t even allowed to go near the classroom. She, like 600 other incompetent New York City teachers, get to keep their paychecks and their pensions while they are banished to “rubber rooms” across town. Due to wacky tenure rules and strong-arming unions, bad teachers get paid to do nothing for years while their cases are drawn out, as revealed in a recent New Yorker piece.
But what if you want to make an easy six figures and teaching isn’t your calling. After all, New York City teachers need to secure three whole years of seniority before they are guaranteed a job for life.
Well, you can try a job with the US government. The average federal bureaucrat now rakes in nearly $120,000 a year. And as a federal employee, your chances of getting axed are only 1 in 5000 in any given year.
