This elementary school teacher makes $66,000 a year. How does she spend it during lockdown? This elementary school teacher makes $66,000 a year. How does she spend it during lockdown? By Roxy Kirshenbaum | Photography By Ebti Nabag | February 8, 2021 02/08/2021 Where she lives With her husband in a two-bed, two-and-a-half-bath townhouse rental in Pickering What she does Elementary school teacher with the TDSB; part-time opera singer with the Volcano Theatre Company; private music teacher What she makes $68,000 a year Between 2012 and 2015, Owen-Garber graduated from the fine arts program at York, received a master’s in musical performance from Western and got a teaching degree from the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education.