West Virginia pays its teacher more than its policemen.

West Virginia Yearly Policeman Pay Statistics
Average Yearly Policeman Salary $23,597 - $35,395
Starting Yearly Policeman Salary $19,433 - $29,149
Top Yearly Policeman Salary $27,761 - $41,641

For more info re: policeman salaries in West Virginia, scroll down at the following link:
http://statetroopersalary.com/WV/1/salary/Policeman-Salary


Considering how much of West Virginia's natural resources are owned, siphoned off, and sold by non-residents, it's little wonder Almost Heaven is a Third World State. And (sad to say), for generations, teachers, themselves, have encouraged West Virginia's brightest to leave the State for greener pastures . . . until not too many of those who remained at home have the capacity, now, to change whatever needs changing.)

and that's just the poor ones:

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/top-pay-for-suffolk-detectives-in-2018-227-000-1.7093344

After living for 74 years in West Virginia, I've discovered---in the past 4 years---that living expenses are higher in central Ohio.

Also: If one considers that WalMart is the state's largest private employer, it hints at what proud West Virginians have learned or not learned at their own expense . . . namely, an old-fashioned work ethic that proclaims any paying job to be preferable to charity.

http://workforcewv.org/lmi/prTOP100_11.pdf

cops around here have historically been better than most other groups in keeping pay high.

I know one couple where she is a cop making $120,000 and he is an ADA making $90,000. Amazingly, his law degree makes him worth 30 grand less than his wife!

To get back to teachers, aside from teachers unions getting bad press, there are a lot more teachers than cops so giving them a raise costs much more overall.

. . . and, in the county where I lived, in addition to that 66-plus percent, we always passed excess levies for education. So, when I said something to the effect that WalMart employees learned or didn't learn at their own expense, I was referring to the state and local taxes such low-income workers pay (sometimes grudgingly) so they can take pride in helping the less fortunate who receive a government paycheck* to continue complaining and coveting the greenery in other states.




All best!







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* plus pension