— https://www.businessinsider.com/10-alarming-facts-about-teacher-pay-in-the-united-states-2019-10 is a decent publication about teacher salary
- The US consistently ranks seventh in the world for average teacher pay. The average salary for a teacher across the US is $60,477 as of 2018, similar to the average for personal trainer
- the average starting salary for a teacher in the US is below $40,000 in 63% of the nation’s school districts
- At the top of their pay scale, a US elementary school teacher makes $67,000 a year, and a US high school teacher makes $71,000 a year on average.
- Teachers in New York make a median salary of $78,576 a year. According to CNN, that’s around the same salary as a physician’s assistant, a college agricultural sciences professor.
- .. Note median salary of all workers in New York is $51k
— https://www.salary.com/articles/8-jobs-youll-love-pay-50000/ shows median salaries:
- $72k flight attendant
- $57k personal trainer
- $61k entry level medical writer
- $70k entry level engineer in many domains
— low wage service workers, reported in [[Living on tips]] on the 2019 edition of Time magazine
- — median wages
- $24k/Y personal-care aide
- $21k/Y food-prep worker, presumably excluding the chef
- $22k/Y waitstaff
In the same article , an economist said “Those who lose jobs in a recession usually move down, not up, the pay scale.”