2006-11-15 07:30:18 · 4 answers · asked by nicholaswright2006 3 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
Supply and demand.
Say what you want to about the relative value of each profession to society -- in the end it's a supply-and-demand equation. There is only one Brittany Spears (thank GOD!!) but thousands of teachers... you do the math. So long as the demand for Brittany holds up (or the boob jobs hold up?) then the supply and demand curves are pretty warped.
Conversely, there are hundreds of thousands of teachers and fire FIGHTERS (not Fire MEN but Fire Fighters -- Fire MEN shovel coal into boilers), and if one quits then you usually have a very ample supply from which to choose.
Worse yet, both of those jobs are heavily unionized, meaning that their wages are skewed away from their true market values. In other words, the wages of those two groups would doubtless be lower if they relied on supply and demand alone.
2006-11-15 07:36:52 · answer #1 · answered by geek49203 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's not fair, is it? For some reasons people put their values and importance on other things a long time ago. The pay for teachers and even day care workers (these are the people that help parents raise their children while they go to work) is obscenely minimal. We need to change this. I wish I knew how.
2006-11-15 15:34:17 · answer #2 · answered by Mommy of 3 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
cause celebrities get paid to entertain a large number of people and they are unique so they get payed more for their uniqueness. Teachers and fire fighters get paid less because there are so many of them, and a lot are hired by the government, and the government tends to pay less to civil servants.
2006-11-15 15:40:20 · answer #3 · answered by scott p 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is WHAT the traffic will bear! Are you kidding me?
2006-11-15 15:33:48 · answer #4 · answered by golferwhoworks 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋