Peacock Offers A Teacher Discount — Here’s How It Works

Peacock offers a teacher discount which brings the price of an Essential subscription down to just $2.99 a month, a saving of $5 each month on the usual cost. Here’s how the Peacock teacher discount works.

Peacock’s teacher discount is available to all teachers, so it doesn’t matter whether they are working for a public or private institution. To qualify for the discount you must be currently employed as a teacher, faculty or staff member at a public or private K-12 school or university in the United States.

As is the case with Peacock’s student discount, the teacher discount requires verification. Again, similar to the student discount, Peacock utilizes SheerID for the verification process. Verification requires providing some personal information, including an email address, first name, last name, date of birth, and school.

Once teacher status has been verified through SheerID, the teacher will receive a promo code for the discount. The promo code can then be added to the Have a promo code? field when signing up through the Peacock website.

If you already have a Peacock account, the promo code can be applied through Plans & Payments in the Account section of the settings.

Here’s a recap of those instructions:

1. Visit SheerID
2. Verify teacher status
3. Wait for promo code (via email)
4. Visit the Peacock website
5. Sign up using the promo code

For those that are already paying for Peacock, there’s currently no way to transfer the discount to the existing subscription. In these cases, subscribers will need to cancel their paid plan and wait for the current billing period to end.

Once the subscription has lapsed, the former subscriber will be able to subscribe again at the discounted price by applying the promo code through Plans & Payments in the Account section of the settings.

Teacher Discounts Need To Be Renewed Each Year

The initial discount only applies to the first 12 months of a subscription. After which, the Essential plan auto-renews at the usual rate, currently $7.99 a month. However, teachers can continue to renew their discount each year, and for as long as they remain a teacher.

Renewing the discount works in the same way as signing up initially, with teachers required to reconfirm their teacher status. Once status has been reverified, the discount is reapplied for the next 12 months again, bringing the price of the Essential plan down to $2.99 a month again.