The table illustrates teachers average salaries at the start of their career, after 15 years and the maximum salary they can reach in Australia, Belguim, Denmark, Japan and Portugal in 2016.
Overall, it is clear that the highest salary are in Australia, Denmark and Japan. While the lowest salary was recorded in Portugal and Belguim. In addition, the shortest number of years to achieve the maximum salary are in Australia.
Regarding the highest salary, Australia had the highest maximum salary, 77,180 USD per annum. Also, in Australia it is much faster to achieve that salary (only 19 years) compared to other countries. However, the highest salary in the starting of the teacher’s career and salary after 15 years are demonstrated in Denmark and Japan, representing 38,345 USD in the beginning of the career in Japan and 58,000 USD after 15 years in Denmark.
Considering lowest salary, Belguim and Portugal represented the smallest number of USD in salary in almost all kinds of it. Only 15,100 USD in the start of the career was revealed by Denmark, while the maximum salary is 32,500 USD per annum was recorded in Portugal. Moreover, despite the smallest amount of salary, these countries demonstrated the average number of years to reach it, 25 in Belguim and 22 in Portugal.
