When I was doing my PhD in mathematics in Romania, I had a colleague who was a high school math teacher also getting a PhD in math, so I got intrigued. I get my

When I was doing my PhD in mathematics in Romania, I had a colleague who was a high school math teacher also getting a PhD in math, so I got intrigued. I get my PhD to access better paid quant jobs in finance, can't see where you could use yours. Turns out a high school teacher that gets a PhD in his teaching domain gets automatically promoted to the highest class of salary achievable as a teacher. My brother is also a high school math teacher, he's reasonably well paid (higher than the average salary in the country) but took him 25 years and a lot of exams to get the "grades" to get here. A PhD program takes 3 years, if you can do it it shortcuts a lot of time. Now I should say that I'm getting 4x the salary of my brother so the paradigm "teaching pays peanuts compared to IT" still holds.