[thejteam]

The teacher payscale versus engineers payscale is interesting. Negating cost of living raises, the pay for teachers is essentially linearly related to time of service. Again negating cost of living adjustments, the pay for an engineer increases rapidly in the first several years, flatlines, then rapidly increases again when a "senior" level is reached, then flatlines again. Changing jobs may result in another jump here or there, but otherwise pay is constant.

The end result of this is when you consider hourly rates a teacher just out of college makes more than an engineer just out of college(9 weeks vacation over the summer helps a lot). Five years though later the engineer makes more than the top pay for a teacher with 30 years experience.

Not sure what this means. Just observations.

[genwin]

Don't forget the teachers' pensions, which radically changes the equation. After considering that a teacher gets paid for ~25 years of not working, with health insurance paid too, whereas the engineer must survive on savings after taxes, the average teacher probably comes out ahead.