[vortigern]

I have a sister and brother-in-law, both teach elementary music (NOT band, NOT orchrestra...but, do-re-mi to little kids!) in the city of Pittsburgh... they both draw $75k+ per year. Love 'em both, but there's something not right about that.

[dashing doofus]

I knew two high school teachers that taught on Long Island. They both made about $100K per year, had awesome benefits, and huge time off.

They had a ski condo in Vermont, and would also summer there. Private sector employees that I knew with more advanced degrees earned about that or a little more, but did not have awesome pensions, summers and a few other selected weeks off every year, and worked far longer hours with little or no job security.