Time to stop paying for work

How much of your wallet do you sacrifice for your job? No, I’m not talking about pay gaps, commuting costs or taking a salary hit to get that dream role. I mean actual, cold-hard cash stumped up that your employer should be paying.

Earlier this year, a PhD dissertation by Emily Cayton of North Carolina State University, US, conducted a survey of school teachers in the US. The researchers aimed to find out the cost of materials to run a course and the potential shortfall. Chemistry, for example, cost up to $10,400 to implement – half of the cost being taken up by materials and equipment, with textbooks making up the majority of the rest. The good news is that chemistry seemed better funded for instructional materials than other subjects. Despite this, 63% of chemistry teachers still felt they were being under-funded.