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[b]Do you all have MDs or PhDs?
[/b]My husband and I work as research scientists and some of our colleagues work 60-80+ hours in their lab. 
Salaries range from 40K as post-docs to 100K for senior scientists, sometimes a little more for specialties.
Considering the years needed to get their diplomas, the rigors of their study and profession, I think they are truly underpaid for what they do: research on cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and all the rest of it.
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I have worked with most of the 16 teachers on my hallway for 5 or more years.  We post our academic credential outside of our doors because we are an AVID school.

So yesterday I walked the hallway at the end of the school day and did a running count.  On my hallway of 16 teachers we have:  3 teachers with PhDs (2 with Master's), 5 teachers with two or more Master's plus additional endorsements (requiring university training usually about 1/2 of a Master's credits), 4 teachers with one Master's plus additional academic endorsements, and 4 teachers with one Master's.

To some extent, just measuring for doctorates can be like comparing apples and oranges since there is no financial or job placement benefit for a doctorate in teaching while additional endorsements allow the teacher fluidity across subject areas or grade levels.  I, for example, have two additional endorsements (each was attained with five or six university courses plus practicums) and three Master's degrees.  My first Master's was in my former profession, the additional two Master's are related to education/subject matter, and the two endorsements had options of going for Master's but I didn't see any benefit of that so I just completed the endorsement requirements.

None of the teachers on my hallway earns more than $80k and 75% are in the $40-50k range.  One of the teachers says that her goal is to some day hit $60k.  Estimating based on how long I see most of us in our classrooms before and after school, I think most of us work 60-75 hours a week.  Look at the education degrees and think about the salaries.  This is a very educated group of people working a lot of hours for a small amount of money.[/quote]

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