first.. do you REALLY think a teacher (assuming it's a woman) wasn't married to a man who worked? And if indeed it was a male and his wife didn't work.. $50K would not have been enough to live on in most parts of Phoenix.. I happen to know that the average income in most zipcodes in Phoenix (a cheap place by national standards) if closer to $75K..
Wake up kid.
edit: btw, my wife was a teacher and saw first hand the difference between kids who's mom says home and those who's mom works.. let's just say it was significant.
1. It was a male teacher and the mom did not work. I knew the family personally.
2. I don't live in Phoenix, nor out in the country somewhere. There are over 1 million people in the metropolitan area. Moderate size. A family could live off 50k, and live in a nice neighborhood. I never said it was like this everywhere.
3. I wasn't talking about anything having to do with kids and the difference between mom at home and mom at work. I don't care.
4. Now it's your turn to wake up.
Don't you get it?........................thats the fun part of life, boats, cars, vacations, nice clothes....you are happy wearing your walmart cloths and making 50k a year?????????????????? Management's wet dream.................."I dont work for money", than what do you work for?
I wasn't talking about anything having to do with the airline industry.
One guy said 100k was the "bare minimum" to raise a family on. I have an example of where that is not true. If YOU want to have boats, cars, extravagant vacations, and you think those things are important, 100k is probably the minimum. However, if someone does not think those things are important, 50k is sufficient. Fun to you may not be fun to someone else. This family that I know is quite happy with their life. It is a matter of where your priorities are, and what is important yo you.
For the airline part, I believe pilots are severely underpaid. How many passengers a day/month/year are pilots responsible for? How many
lives? One wrong step and 15-70 people, on the regional airline level, are dead. Great responsibility should come with above average pay. The skills that pilots possess are invaluable, and pilots should be paid as such. Until airline management recognizes how invaluable and unique the skill set that pilots possess actually is, pay will not increase.