[verga]

as a profession, make twice HALFwhat the average private sector worker makes for what is more or less a part much more than a full time job?

Fixed it for you. Would you mind telling where I can make for money and work those "part time hours" I would love to have less than 50 hours a week.

[MrEdd]

Off your meds.

50 hours isn’t a very long work week (go talk to a farmer, or a machinist, or even a fast food manager) and private sector jobs outside of banking have nowhere near the holidays government workers get, let alone summers off.

Nor will you see many private sector jobs with retirement benefits even in the same solar system with their government counterparts.

I have a book written in the twenties about how to lie with statistics.
The first, third, and sixth rules are all “Always use averages; never, ever, use the mean.”

Do enlighten us all. What do you make including benefits, and what is the mean income for an adult in your state.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Not sure where you are going with this, but nationally teachers now make twice the average as private sector workers.

It’s an average, and of course there are outliers - but it puts the lie to the myth that teachers are “underpaid” dreadfully overall.