The table provides a comparison of different levels of salaries of teachers from secondary schools in 5 countries in the year 2009.
Overall, teachers in Luxembourg were given the highest salaries while Australian teachers were given the lowest ones. Moreover, Denish educators had to take the least time to reach their wages comparing to that of their counterparts.
Looking at the starting salaries column in detail, educators in Luxembourg had their highest one, which was US,000. This figure was followed by Denmark (which was US$47,000) and Australia ranked third, being US$34,600. Moreover, Korean and Japanese teachers were served the lowest incomes which were under US$31,000.
From the annual and maximum salary information, it can be seen that Luxembourg was still the country that had the biggest paying for its educators, which was about US$112,000 and US$139,000 respectively. In contrast to this nation, Australia had the lowest wages for its secondary school teachers, being US$48,000 for both kinds of wages. The remaining categories all had their teachers’ wages under US$55,000 each for the yearly income. As for the maximum wages, Korean educators received the second-highest ones: US$84,5000 whereas the other categories had their figure for nearly US$63,000.
On the one hand teachers in Luxembourg, Korean, and Japan had to wait more than 30 years to reach their desired income, Australian, and Denish teachers, one the other hand, took less than a decade to reach the top salaries.