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[quote=Anonymous]Teachers are not universally underpaid. Nurses are able to greatly increase income with higher levels of education, which teachers really can’t do by the same scale. Not all nurses are the same. Some have AA, some have PhD. Some are in a specialized field. You’re using a big umbrella. That’s like saying your Level 1 help desk consultant is underpaid because Software Developers make so much more money.

Also, you can’t base what someone should be paid by their level of formal education. That is one of many qualifications to obtain income. I see people on here all the time complaining about engineering salaries and I recently switched but previously worked for 20 years with engineers (all types from Civil, Aerospace, Mechanical, Chemical, Nuclear, Electrical….) and they all made good money. The degree qualifies you for something but it’s not the only thing that does that. Teachers in MoCo have to have a degree. That degree gets them something. Other fields have other qualifications that are required. Saying someone has a 1-year Masters and that should get them money is dumb. It’s actually a dumb thing to say. It discounts so many other factors. I have a Bachelors in CS and when I graduated I made more than most Psychologists with Doctorate level education. Remember the law of supply and demand?[/quote]

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