The table below shows the salaries of secondary/high school teachers in 2009. Describe the main features of the figure

The table compares the information about the pay scale of secondary and high school

teachers

from various countries in 2009.

Overall

,

teachers

from

Luxembourg

had both the highest starting and maximum salaries. Another interesting feature is that

teachers

in

Luxembourg

, Japan, and Korea worked for more than 30

years

to achieve the top salary

whereas

their counterparts in Australia, Denmark and only took less than 10

years

. As can be seen from the table, secondary/ high school

teachers

in

Luxembourg

were offered 80000 dollars as their starting salary, compared to only 28000 in Australia. Denmark lagged behind

Luxembourg

with 45000, which was still significantly higher than the statistics of Japan and Korea, with 34000 and 30000 respectively. After 15

years

of career,

Luxembourg

topped the table with their

teachers

being paid 119000, and up to 132000 within 30

years

. Japan came

next,

where

teachers

’ salaries nearly doubled in 15

years

and reached 86000 in 37

years

. What stands out from the data is that Korean

teachers

were not paid as much as the other nations, with 48000 for 15

years

. Working for 34

years

, they had their pay rate more than doubled with 62000. There was

also

a significant increase in the figures for Australia and Denmark with 48 and 54 thousand respectively for 15

years

.

Also

,

teachers

in these two nations needed only around 9

years

to reach their highest pay, which is substantially small compared to the other remaining three countries