March...April...May...

As I've previously said, I kept notes about spring hours on the Stickies application. :)  It kept me accountable because I saw it EVERY day at the beginning, middle, and end of the day.

March's total hours was:
Hours:  164.75

Notes on this--
1. Spring Break!
2. PAWS testing for our students meant that I did less work to be graded in the classroom.  I wanted to keep it low key.
3.  I had a week I didn't record. Therefore, 40 hours was calculated for that week. 

April's totals:
Hours: 190.75

Notes on this:
1.  Good Friday was a no school day, but otherwise, no days off.
2.  My father-in-law passed away at the end of April and on the 30th it was a long day of lesson plan writing for the funeral the following day.

May's totals: 
Hours: 166.25

Notes on this:
1.  The last two weeks of school have WAY less preparation. :)
2.  After students' last day, teachers do come in to clean, etc.


END OF FEBRUARY RESULTS...

END OF FEBRUARY (including November and December)
Total hours worked this year: 1258.5 hours
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $35.58 per hour

PLUS March/April/May's 521.75 hours!

DRUMROLL...if you please....
Total hours worked this year: 1780.25
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making:    $25.15 per hour

Now.  Is that a bad salary? Heck No! It's very nice and I'm comfortable with it.  The problem I see is that I'm paid to work 37 weeks at 40 hours per week.  That's 1480 hours at about $30.25 per hour.

I work (with a CONSERVATIVE estimate) 300 hours MORE than that in an average year.  Not saying I can't get by, but really, If I got paid PER HOUR, I'd have made $53,869 this year.  That's all, of course, not including the fact that I have already worked a bit this summer and will be back to work WELL before summer is over.

I may do this again this year just to see if I'm working less/more/the same as I get more experience. :)

Trying to Recap all this maddness. :)

As you know, I've been trying to keep track of my hours, but I kind of failed in November and December.  I FINALLY (today) went back and looked through my lesson plan book to compile and add up the hours I had recorded and to add in a minimum 8 hour day to the days whose hours I did not record.  If you've looked at ANY other posts on here you'll see that I VERY RARELY work less than an 8 hour day.  That's why I've chosen to insert 8 hours on days that I neglected to write down this school year.

The total for October 31 through December 22 was 305 hours.  Really, that's way less than I typically would work in a two month period for a few reasons.

1.  There are lots of holidays in there and even though I generally work on at least one day of a holiday break, I do work less. 
2.  My grandfather got sick on November 2 and passed away on the 11th.  I, therefore, tried to spend a lot of time at home and talking with my family. I was a bit distracted from school.
3.  I took three days off to attend the funeral 400 miles away.  From November 16-18 I was not in my classroom.
4.  I took a sick day on December 16. 

Now, the absences almost make up for themselves in planning time for a sub.  Truly, I probably spend at MINIMUM two hours prepping for an absence.

Alright, so how does all of this affect the hours?

I'm going to add the hours to the last total I did...at the end of February. Yikes.

END OF FEBRUARY (minus November/December)...
Total hours worked this year: 953.5 hours
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $46.97 per hour  

END OF FEBRUARY (including November and December)
Total hours worked this year: 1258.5 hours
Salary for the year: $44,784
I'm making: $35.58 per hour  

Pretty sure that the average nurse makes this PER HOUR that she works in a year...

sigh.