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So, answer my question.  If you think that 88K is on par with other "well-paid professionals" (the term that was used), then what "well-paid professions" are you thinking of?[/quote]

Unsurprisingly, they did not answer your question.  :roll: There are very few others who would be considered "well paid professionals" who make the same salary as teachers. [/quote]

Teachers salaries are on par with engineer salaries when comparing apples to apples number of hours worked (so no including "unpaid" vacations) - you don't get to say you work for 11 months but then claim your vacations are unpaid.

I don't even know why I bother because you will pick these to pieces: http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_50.htm
http://www.forbes.com/sites/warrenmeyer/2011/12/22/the-teacher-salary-myth-are-teachers-underpaid/

Remember, if you're going to pick apart the number of hours per week, you have to do that for the other industries too - so it may say teachers only work 37 hours per week on average, but it also says other professionals work around 38, so really it is apples to apples, even if you both work 60 hours a week. 
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