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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Maybe you can explain the relevance because I don't see it.
Its equivalent to a 7-11 clerk bitching that he's underpaid because a welder makes 5 times as much as him.
The comparison of teachers across the provinces is pretty relevant.
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It is relevant because you are competing for those people. If the market in the rest of Canada says that, for example, teachers make the same as plumbers, then if plumbers make more than teachers in Alberta the plumbing profession will attract more and better people while the teaching profession will attract less attractive employees. In your example, a job as a welder would be much more attractive than a job as a 7-11 clerk and would therefore attract more able employees.
Another example was discussed earlier in this thread. It was that if the other professions pay better than teachers in Alberta as opposed to other provinces, then teachers will have not be able to afford the same kind of houses that they could in the rest of Canada.
I read somewhere that some of the best places in the world to teach are in S.E. Asia. The pay is a fraction of what it is here, but with the low cost of living you are able to save more money from your income than you are in other places, including here.