The table illustrates secondary and high school teachers’ earnings in Australia, Denmark, Luxembourg, Japan and Korea in 2009.

The table illustrates secondary and high school

teachers

’ earnings in Australia,

Denmark

,

Luxembourg

, Japan and Korea in 2009.

Overall

,

while

teachers

in

Luxembourg

were the most well-paid,

teachers

from Australia were the lowest-paid.

In addition

, the amount of time it took for a teacher in

Denmark

to earn the maximum salary was much faster than

most

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other countries. The amount of pay

that Secondary and High school

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teachers

in

Luxembourg

were paid started at $80,000 a year,

while

the figure for

teachers

in

Denmark

was significantly lower, at $45,000.

Besides

, the salary of

teachers

in the remaining 3 countries started at around $30,000.

However

,

teachers

who worked at least 15

years

in

Luxembourg

earned up to $119,000 a year,

while

teachers

in

Denmark

and Japan with the same

years

of experience only made salaries of $54,000 and $65,000 respectively. Meanwhile, Australian and Korean

teachers

with at least 15

years

experience

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were paid the lowest salaries, at $48,000 a year. It is

also

obvious that it only took

teachers

in Australia and

Denmark

less than 10

years

to receive their maximum salary,

while

teachers

in the other countries had to work for at least 30

years

.