9/2 The table below gives information about salaries of secondary/high school teachers in five countries in 2009.

The table shows the secondary school teachers' salaries in five different nations in 2009.

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it is clear that

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Luxembourg, Korea, and Japan, had big room for

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increases. They needed over three decades to reach the highest

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.

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, Australia and Denmark only have little room for improvement. The highest wage for teachers in high school was in Luxembourg, and it was much higher than others in all categories. Looking at the table more closely, one can see that the Japanese had the lowest starting pay, but both the

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per year and maximum money were not ranked at the bottom.

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, Japanese performance was replaced by Australians in these two groups. Australia and Denmark were much alike in yearly

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and the maximum

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. They accounted

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same numbers in these two cells. About how long they can receive the most money on teaching, Australia and Denmark were much the same in 8 or 9 years of being teachers.

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, other countries' figures were much bigger.