Terrible pay

EDIT: It just occurred to me for the hospital stuff I actually am employed through the hospital as a counselor that works in the schools so I am wondering if that may be why I am asked to go with the students, I was just asked again today.

So I mostly just need to vent about my pay situation I’m very overwhelmed by how hard it is to get by at the moment. I love my job very much I just started this year and it’s my first job out of graduate school. I work at an alternative high school as a counselor in Louisiana, I have around 55 kids at the moment on my caseload. I am salaried at $48,000 a year which isn’t that bad except I have never worked a full time job in this field and I kind of just forgot about deductions so I’m actually only making $2600 a month because they take out $1000 a month. My rent is $1800 a month so I just am really struggling with finances especially since it’s the holiday season. It just feels so awful that I was making so much more money as a server. We also are expected to respond to any crisis because we are ethically bound but if we are after school hours we don’t get paid. I was at the ER for 3 and a half hours yesterday waiting for a students parent to show up and I was not on the clock so I wasn’t getting paid. I just really wish the money was there and I didn’t have to struggle so much because I do really love the work that I do I’m just so overwhelmed with constantly thinking about money.