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Re:How Teachers Came to Be So Underpaid in America by barrow-rider on Friday September 14, 2018 @11:12AM (#17987762)
How many would accept median pay anywhere? 70k in the Research Triangle in NC is probably unimpressive. $70k in the DC area is piddly, and good devs and IT folks, esp. those with clearances and decent chops, are making easily $120k+. I'd image the same holds true for NYC and Boston.
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Re:How Teachers Came to Be So Underpaid in America by hammock on Friday September 14, 2018 @09:09PM (#17992359)
>How many would accept median pay anywhere?

(Runs a few calculations on a napkin ...) Exactly half.

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