Probably teacher strikes across the country demanding similar raises based on seniority.

No that’s market rate…which means we are gonna pay you least amount we can.

No, market rate is the average price of a good or service across the market.

Sanders appeals to college students because like them, he hasn’t progressed past a college freshman in ideological thinking. When Bolshevik Bernie is waving his arms, denouncing Corporate America and making promises of free stuff for all there’s no way any rational though process was involved. When he touts socialist utopia and delivers a cost to the taxpayers, it’s a fictional number compared to what economists estimated. He is lying (no surprises there) to ā€œ raise excitement ā€œ among a portion of the electorate equally naive convinced like the old politburo elitist Sanders that rich people are going to pay for it all. News flash Bern, tens of $Trillions ain’t free!

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why would anyone pay more than the market rate?

dont you pay the least you can for what you buy? or should one offer to pay more?

notice how ā€œmarketā€ takes on a negative meaning for some reason

That just it…in something like 35 states it is illegal for teachers to strike for negotiations on wages. In Indiana teachers have no collective bargaining ā€œrightsā€ for salary and benefits.

That doesn’t always prevent them from doing so. They find ways around it and when they do they almost never pay a price for same.

Do you believe in you get what you pay for?

Oh I know that. What it would take is a state wide walk out. A small school corp. Otherwise you potentially get a lot of people fired, arrested, or otherwise out of a job.

Only when the gov’t isn’t meddling in the market.

I’ve seen teachers having the equivalent of ā€œThe Blue Fluā€ in well coordinated efforts across districts and states in the past. They got away with it.

Well then if you don’t pay people enough you get what you pay for.

Nonsensical gibberish. The need and availability naturally set the price of labor.

Because its lazy and cheap.
My job is worth a lot more than what I’m getting paid.
They claim market rates because they are cheap. Given the area they can do that

It’s worth exactly what someone is willing to take to replace you, no more.

Nope, pay cheap wages get cheap work.

Nope.

60k is not out of line for what they do and the massive responsibility they undertake.

Towns and cities pay them, it’s much more complicated than fifty states.