teachers get paid big in Canada, and pensions to match. I posted these stats for Canadian public sector salaries versus private sector salaries. You'll see that a high school teacher is making 100-120K a year - elementary school teachers 60-80K
People with good jobs working for the government in Canada are upper middle class, many of them are in the 1% income bracket we heard so much about during the Occupy movement but nobody said shit about it. It's wrong, who pays the salaries of all those public sector fat cats? The average joe making the Canadian average income of $46,000, the people with their own small businesses who risk their own capital and no pension plan.
When I was a kid school teachers made a little better than average income, now they make TWICE the average income - two high school teachers married to each other pull in about $250,000 a year, with about 3 months off a year.
