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Originally Posted by Ironic Mustache
Did you just really compare a high school teacher's education (even the one's who have a master's) with a lawyer's? Also, let's compare the amount of hours the average lawyer works per year versus the average teacher. Before we even take into account summers, lawyers win this in a landslide. Now add 3 more months. If that actually turned out to be an accurate stat, teachers would be lucky to get a quarter of the pay lawyers do. If you take out the outliers, the average lawyer makes nowhere near $200k. I searched Chicago attorney salaries and picked Attorney II out of a I-III scale and got this:
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You missed my point. Obviously being a teacher isn't as prestigious as being a lawyer, but both require a post bachelor's education. As of now all teachers coming into the profession must have a master's degree. Why should anyone drop 50k+ (in addition to four years of undergrad expenses) to get a job that pays something on average of 35k? Throw in being the first public employees to lose your job when the economy is bad or people think they're paying too much in taxes, and it just doesn't make any sense.