Slow speech is usually regarded as less than 110 wpm, or words per minute. Conversational speech generally falls between 120 wpm at the slow end, to 160 - 200 wpm in the fast range. People who read books for radio or podcasts are often asked to speak at 150-160 wpm.
Although a college degree is required for many teaching in early education, it's not unusual for a teacher to get about $11.75 an hour or $24,440 for the year. That salary puts a family of three or more below the federal poverty line. The state minimum wage now stands at $9 an hour and will rise to $10 in 2016.
Tuesday, May 5 is National Teacher Appreciation Day , celebrated each year on the Tuesday of the first full week of May. To honor the day, the Bureau of Labor Statistics highlighted how much elementary school teachers (not including special education teachers) earn on average in each state . New York's school teachers were the highest paid in the country, earning $74,830 per year on average in May 2014. The average elementary educator in Mississippi, on the other hand, was paid only $41,010. The salary data can be found at the Bureau of Labor Statistics here.