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"In fairness the comment about teachers in suburban districts was that two teacher salaries would be near 200k" Precisely, and it's false. Two teachers, the va
by jshen 15y ago
"In fairness the comment about teachers in suburban districts was that two teacher salaries would be near 200k"
Precisely, and it's false. Two teachers, the vast majority of them, will not be near 200k. Look at my link, and it's obvious that if you randomly select 2 teachers, the vast majority of them will not be near $200k.
"If you assume that people who earn >$400k or so marry people from other occupations more or less uniformly, you'd expect close to 1% of teachers to show up on this chart"
Right, but you're making my point for me. My point is that teachers are not showing up because of their own salary.
- bzbarsky 15y ago> if you randomly select 2 teachers Then you won't get 2 teachers "in their peak earning years". That part is important too. There are two separate points here: 1) Teachers are not ending up in the top 1% because they make enough on their own. Very true. 2) Teachers in rich suburban school districts will end up near $100k in terms of salary in their peak earning years (which for teachers generally means near retirement). Still true. No problem for both of those to be true, since $200k is nowhere near the 1% cutoff for household AGI.
- jshen 15y agoWe're splitting hairs over wording and possible implicit meanings, and I'm pretty sure we agree on the real issue, so yeah. One last thing, not only do they have to be in their peak earning years, they also need to max out the points from additional education. I don't know how many teachers do that.
- bzbarsky 15y agoYeah, I'm not entirely sure about the additional education thing either. Most teachers I know are spending a fair bit of time on that, but I'm not sure how that translates into the +15, +30, etc system of points...