| BlackCrayon |
02-11-2013 07:19 AM |
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Originally Posted by Mutt
(Post 19473541)
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.
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you obviously don't actually know any teachers because if you did, you'd know its not true. teachers who have been working for 40 years in major cities *might* make that much but otherwise, its simply not true. My mother has been teaching since the early 70's and she bring in around 90k gross. Before taxes, before the huge union dues they pay and other deductions. after all that its about 60k. still a good income but think about other teachers, the majority have not been teaching that long. new teachers today don't make anything near the same amount as teachers who have been teaching for 40 years. and government workers making over 100k? its the minority not the majority.
as for cursive, i haven't used it since high school. looking back i have to laugh, taking typing class and hating it, thinking it was a total waste of time and something i'd never really use. boy, was i wrong. i barely passed the class and ended up having to learn it on my own not long after high school when the internet got my attention and i started making sites. |
