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Median teacher's pay in the US is roughly the median pay for someone with a college degree in the US. I am not sure how one could get to "massively underpaid" f
by jandrewrogers 3y ago
Median teacher's pay in the US is roughly the median pay for someone with a college degree in the US. I am not sure how one could get to "massively underpaid" from that. Teaching doesn't stand out as being unusually difficult or requiring exceptional skill.
- creer 3y agoAlso how you end up in (net worth / spending rate) is as much a result of how much you earn as what fraction of that you invest; How modest you keep your living expenses; How early you start; How well you can learn and keep up with investment reading and math requirements; And luck. Being a teacher may well predispose you with several of these. The US make it also easy - well, maybe not easy but not uncommon - for a cliché "Wall Street lawyer" to end up broke. We were discussing the awesome breadth in outcome in the US.
- edgyquant 3y agoIt’s something people have heard from other people and often regurgitate.