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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Re: "A good number of you make much more than than the median salary"

I'm going to assume the OP is doing way more better in stats than most students.[/quote]

I was typing fast...I meant median HHI in the country, I.e. $50k.  Even the lowest paid professors start out there and salaries continue to rise as they make tenure and rise in the ranks. [/quote]

NP. So spending years in school earning that PhD shouldn't count for anything, salarywise? You're saying that PhDs should make the same wages as Walmart clerks?

Help me understand your sense of outraged injustice. Now if you had ranted about how we pay elementary school teachers less than BAs in Finance, I'd be right with you.  
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Do you always argue by attributing points to the other person that they didn't say?  Show me a Wal-Mart clerk who starts out at $60k a year plus benefits and pension and can earn the right to never be fired.  I didn't say their education shouldn't count for anything...only that when they take a job and do half of it (teaching) grudgingly and with disdain, they should know that they are contributing to a negative view of their profession.  It's not like anyone has ever said that becoming a university professor was the road to wealth.  And very, very few become research hot shots, ao if that is tue expectation of newly minted PhD's, well, they are in for a surprise.  The reality is that there are still tens of thousands of undergrads to teach, and tuition ain't cheap.       [/quote]

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