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Japan is much more income equal than the US, so a proper comparison would be of average salary. In the US a Google engineer can be making $160k while a teacher
by chrischen 10y ago
Japan is much more income equal than the US, so a proper comparison would be of average salary.
In the US a Google engineer can be making $160k while a teacher in some southern state could be making $50k.
- TheAdamAndChe 10y agoJust so you know, it's worse than you think. Teachers in rural MO make ~$35k/yr.
- VLM 10y agoAnd depending how much you trust your numbers there are ten public school teachers in Mississippi for every google engineer. And there's almost fifty more states full of teachers... And they'll owe roughly the same student loan balance at graduation, well, in theory they would, if not correcting for extreme lack of diversity at Google.