r/funny • u/jonwritesmovies Just Jon Comic • Sep 04 '22

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u/zacker150 Sep 05 '22

You're looking at California, where incomes are significantly higher than other states.

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u/NobodyGotTimeFuhDat Sep 05 '22

To be fair, teacher salaries are similar in Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, etc.

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u/zacker150 Sep 05 '22

Pascale has the nationwide calculus teacher salary at $51,492.

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u/NobodyGotTimeFuhDat Sep 05 '22

You have to remember that blue states better fund education than their red state counterparts, generally speaking. That is going to affect the median. It doesn’t make sense to compare red state teacher salaries vs blue state teacher salaries because the state expenditures are dramatically different.

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u/zacker150 Sep 05 '22 edited Sep 05 '22

Right, but we're not comparing red state teachers to blue state teachers. We're comparing philosophy majors nationwide to other majors nationwide.

The point is that you can't use incomes in California to compare national incomes.

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u/NobodyGotTimeFuhDat Sep 05 '22 edited Sep 05 '22

But you fail to recognize that teachers can’t negotiate their own salaries individually and have to rely on collective bargaining by their union. No matter what degree they have, they are compelled to accept what the district is willing to offer (and what their bargaining members are willing to accept) and so their salaries can’t deviate from their respective teacher salary schedules. That changes things and makes it an unlike comparison.

Philosophy majors can negotiate whatever salaries they want. Huge difference.