“Yet Statistics Canada figures for 2010-11 have been interpreted by some, including the provincial government, as showing B.C. teachers’ salaries are the second-highest among the provinces, earning an average of $80,582, excluding benefits and an enviable pension fund.”
“To get where they need to be, this contract for the BCTF will have to include a cost-of-living number, somewhere between 1 and 1.5 per cent, plus a market adjustment on top of that, probably 3 per cent, according to union sources. The BCTF may open with a number larger than this, but that is ultimately where they want to be. So, even factoring in a 1-per-cent cost-of-living number, that amounts to a 20-per-cent raise over the life of a five-year agreement.”