cfm,

Well, it IS standard practice to earn more as your years of expereince grow. Anybody who is still working for the same wages they were 10 years ago is either lazy or a fool.

I know that teachers only work full-time 9 months out of the year, but they hardly work 9-5 during those months. Overworked? No, but I doubt it's as easy as many make it out to be.

The funny thing is, nobody complains about what a CEO makes..........yet you pay THEIR salary too. Not in taxes, but you pay it if you buy stuff from them. $62,000/year can be justified as far as I'm concerned but how do you justify being paid a million dollar bonus when your company's workforce had been decimated by layoffs?
It's a little different, because you CAN choose not to buy items from such a company, but you HAVE to pay taxes.......but it's similar.

Thoughts?