The table chart illustrates the secondary and high school teachers’ incomes in Australia, Denmark, Luxembourg, Japan, and Korea in 2009.
Overall, it is clear that the salaries of Luxembourg teachers were the highest, and the opposite was true for Australia. Moreover, the number of years to reach the maximum salary for teachers in Japan was the highest, and the figure for Denmark was the lowest.
As can be seen from the chart, starting at 28,000 dollars, the salaries of Australia’s teachers increased considerably by 20,000 dollars after 15 years. At 48,000 dollars, it also was the highest salary that Australia’s teachers could reach in their career path. In addition, the original income of secondary/high school teachers in Denmark was 45,000 dollars, and after 15 years, it rose slightly to 54,000 dollars, which was the highest income for Denmark’s teachers. Finally, the number of years to reach the maximum salary in Australia and Denmark was low, at 9 and 8 years, respectively.
Looking at the chart in more detail, with the highest beginning salary, after 15 years the salaries of Luxembourg teachers increased from 80,000 dollars to 119,000 dollars and reached a peak at 132,000 after 30 years. In the beginning, teachers’ incomes in Japan were 34,000 dollars, and they spent 37 years to reach a maximum salary of 86,000 dollars. Besides, before reaching the highest income of 62,000 dollars during 34 years of work, the beginning salaries of Korea’s teachers were 30,000 dollars and increased to 48,000 after 15 years.