Okay, I see the relevance there. What I’m saying is that there are other government jobs that pay way more than teachers such as those toll booth people who make upwards of $100,000 a year and school janitors in NYC who make around $80,000
When I was growing up, my parents both worked as faculty members for a small state university. Their work included research, writing, advising and, in my father's case, oversight of the livestock on the state experimental farm.
He worked 12 months of the year, mother worked 10. Neither ever made what the unionized school teachers in the local school district made in nine months even though they had longer working hours and a higher educational attainment.
I'm not whining. That's just an observation. And the gap has only grown worse in the quarter century since they retired.
Compare public school teachers to private school teachers; in my area we have a kindergarten teacher not even 45 years old making over $80K. Do you know what this person will cost the taxpayer by the time she dies? Millions!
Private school principals don’t earn that much; this parasite milks the system, getting an un-needed advanced degree to push the salary higher (kindergarten isn’t even required in NJ - school officially starts in first grade). That is why NJ will be left with illegal aliens and the permanent underclass (neither of which pay taxes - read: teachers); this is also why Governor Christie is so popular in NJ - he exposed this nonsense on national TV.