Second Salary for Teachers

You work hard at your job doing a wonderful task — educating the future of our country and world.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if teachers were compensated like star athletes? After all, what is more important? Teaching children or playing basketball in front of 20,000 people. There certainly might be more entertainment value in the basketball game but the real importance lies in the classroom.

Do you know any teachers who would like to be independently financially secure? What if a teacher could teach because he or she loved teaching, not in order to get a paycheck? Think about the freedom it would give to be able to know that all of your monthly bills were paid for every month, whether you received your teaching paycheck or not. Imagine not having to worry about whether the School Board approved another pay raise or not.

Unfortunately, our financial educations are not as developed as they might be. Most of us go get a job to work for many, many years and save money so that we will be able to live on that money after we stop working. Very few of us though start saving a hundred dollars a month while still in high school and increase it slightly as time went on so that by 45, there was enough saved to actually live on without having to work for a paycheck.

Do you know anyone who wants to own their own life?

Do you know anyone who would like to be able to retire in one to three years from now without having to save thousands of dollars every month?

Let?s talk about retirement for a moment. How much would it take in savings to provide a monthly check of ,000 per month. ,000 per month is a gross salary of ,000 per year.

If a savings account were to pay 5% interest (and few are near that today), one would have to have ,200,000 in cash in the savings account to take out that much money, just taking the interest earned. That money would have to be accumulated in savings after you had paid your house note, your car note, utilities, insurance, and all of your other monthly expenses. That necessity is a rather daunting requirement while still trying to enjoy life.

Worse, salary income only comes from trading hours for dollars. If one cannot work, the income stops. You are at risk every day when you drive a car or do any of the many life activities that we do every day. While there is insurance for disability, it does not provide the same level of security that a second stream of income would provide.

The potential is there to create a second income stream, particularly with the talent that teachers have ? how to teach. The key to that income is learning a system and then being able to teach others how to follow the system and teach others to do the same.

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3 Ways to Supplement a School Teachers Salary

The average school teacher salary in the US is under 45,000 a year, and thanks to new federal spending cuts, all teacher salaries are on the decline .  

Our teachers are being forced to work longer hours and be held to higher standards of teaching even though the teacher pay scale is being lowered, as is the case in Rhode Island where the governor fired and then rehired 80% of it’s teachers in one school district, forcing them to either step up, or step away from their jobs.  

This leaves many in the field of academics asking how they could supplement a school teachers salary while maintaining the extra hours demanded of them for after school activities.

If your teachers salary is being effected by today’s economy, here are a few tips you can use to offset the decline in teacher pay.  

#1- Write Articles for Online Magazines  

Not as difficult as it may sound. Writing articles online isn’t like penning a novel.

The internet is full of people searching for answers to everyday issues, and they want answers to their problems as if they were speaking to a friend. 

Think of those things effecting your life, like teacher salaries, and put your feelings about this topic on an “ezine” site, (Internet term for Mag-ezine).  

The ezine site will insert hyperlinks in your article (usually blue text links you see in the article body). When someone reads your article and clicks on the links, the ezine will earn a commission of which they will split with you. Usually 50/50.  

Write enough articles and you’ll soon see this is an easy way to supplement a teachers salary in your spare time.  

#2- Become an Affiliate Marketer Online  

Affiliate marketing is a when someone “Affiliates” him or herself with a product they wish to promote for someone else. 

Most affiliates are ezine authors and when they write about a topic related to the product or service they are promoting, they will post a link to that product or service in their articles and when a reader clicks on the link and purchases the product, the affiliate earns a commission.  

Some affiliate programs offering e-books pay up to 75% commissions and is a great way to supplement a teachers salary.  

#3- Become an Independent Distributor in a Reputable Multi Level Marketing Company  

Think of Amway. They built their business on referrals. When one buyer referred a friend, and that friend referred a friend, each of them earned a commission.

Stick with one of these type of marketing programs and you’ll have no need to supplement a teachers salary.  

If you choose this path, be patient and stick with it. It takes time to build a down line of steady buyers, but if you associate yourself with a product that has a popular niche and long term sustainability, your rewards will be unimaginable.

Those early Amway, Mary k, and Avon affiliates who started 20 years ago now live in place like the the Hamptons and have thousands of members in their down lines amassing great fortunes for them.

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