Plus you have to put up with everybody thinking you are loaded, which really annoys me, but of course you just have to smile and put up with it.
Are you perhaps mixing up classroom hours with working hours?I have a friend the same age who did primary teaching straight from school, not knocking teachers, its a tough job, but on an hourly rate basis she earns double what I do, and has a pension.
Revenue figures disclosed in Competition Authority report put median income of Solicitors at €150k pa (2004). I assume this is gross and does include pension contribution. .................................If you add the pension benefit, say 25%, then teachers income could be valued at circa €78k, which is still considerably below disclosed median income of solicitors, although the hours worked are substantially less.
Sorry to quibble, but you are comparing apples with oranges. Misuse of statistics is one of my pet peeves. The Competition Authority report did not put median income of solicitors at €150k per annum. It cited a median income for Solicitor business owners of €140k, a median of €52k for "Associate" solicitors and a median of €48k for "employed solicitors".
The comparison is by any not by any means perfect because most teachers are employees while a relatively high proportion of solicitors own and operate their own business. So I do concede that comparing employee solicitors to employee teachers would not be a perfectly valid comparison either. The truth, I rather suspect, is that a single headline income figure is simply not a useful way to compare the two careers.
Mind you, there are undoubtedly some private education facilities out there owned and operated by qualified teachers. I very much doubt that these owner managers have (or had at the relevant time) a median income of €78k.
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