{"id":13025,"date":"2019-07-09T10:41:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T15:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/?p=13025"},"modified":"2019-07-10T11:01:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T16:01:57","slug":"summertime-teachers-working-second-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/summertime-teachers-working-second-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Summertime = teachers working second jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summers off continues to be\u00a0 a myth for many teachers who must work a second job to make ends meet.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2019\/07\/01\/about-one-in-six-u-s-teachers-work-second-jobs-and-not-just-in-the-summer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pew Research Center<\/a> says that 16% of teachers are now working a second job this summer in the US.\u00a0 During the school year 18% of teachers are working second jobs.<\/p>\n<p>How much do teachers bring in through their outside jobs? Roughly 7% of their total earnings come from second jobs &#8211; which also means if teachers got a 7% raise, maybe they wouldn&#8217;t need to work a second job.<\/p>\n<p>Younger teachers and male teachers are more likely to be working a second job.\u00a0 32% of those teachers with one year experience and 20% of those with 2-4 years experience are working second jobs and 26% of men versus 15% of women are working second jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Many of those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/airbnb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">teachers work for Uber<\/a> or are renting their homes through Airbnb.<\/p>\n<p>What does this mean? Overall the percentage has not increased since they have been tracking outside employment for teachers but teachers are 3 times more likely to have a second job compared to all other professions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summers off continues to be\u00a0 a myth for many teachers who must work a second job to make ends meet.\u00a0 The Pew Research Center says that 16% of teachers are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[71,23,43],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-11-12 01:23:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13026,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13025\/revisions\/13026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}