Teaching is definitely one of the most underpaid professions. It's bizarre, given how much they go through to become teachers, and also for how much responsibility they have, and for the well-being of a class full of other people's children in addition to everything else. Strange thing is even though that's been the case for a very, very long time, most of them keep at it. They must enjoy their jobs, or at least the part about working with kids and teaching them. Thumbs up for Char.
The salary thing is still out of whack, in this economy. There's a point at which it's just too much money for any amount of work. 29.5
million? Most people won't make that in their entire lifetime, even if they worked every day, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. I could see if you dedicated your life to the company, and were basically being paid to only do that, nothing else, ever. Otherwise a person doesn't even
need that much money except to subsidize a lavish lifestyle of conspicuous consumption, so the only reason for paying it, especially if it's a public figure, is for showing off. Money is power, so the more you earn, the more powerful you seem. It's one thing to accept money because you need it to live, it's another to get paid that much and hoard it while your customers can barely make enough to feed their families and still afford gas for their Ford SUV. Maybe he will invest it wisely or donate a good chunk to charity. There are just plenty of CEOs who do their jobs on a salary of $1, because they make so much without a salary they don't need it, and maybe they enjoy their job so much they do it for something besides the money. We have no idea what this guy does with the money he earns, but when compared to the news stores of those CEOs who have a self-imposed salary of $1, and with the country still in a recession, a news story about someone making 26.5 million isn't going to go over well.
Maybe Mr. Mulally should donate some of that money to schools and education programs, and also for whatever needs to get done to pass that legislation that will raise the minimum salaries for teachers and reward those who do their jobs so well.