Thank you for supplying the ranking source and I appreciate how they conducted it. I agree with you that base salary does not mean everything when it comes to accumulate wealth. But it certainly means a lot more than nothing. If you have $5 to invest at 5% you sure aren’t going to accumulate as much as if you had $50 to invest.
Under that model, a kindergarten teacher at 35,000 a year with the same mortgage, used car, small school loan, and simple lifestyle isn’t going to accumulate the same as someone with the exact same expenses but a $75,000 salary. When the context is spend less invest more, salary has a huge impact. And there is a laaaaaarge salary range within the world of professional educators, which is why I would like to see how they categorize ‘teachers’
As for the tax discussion, I’d be completely in favor of one uniform tax percentage, or even dropping the percentage due from the ‘rich’, if we could ensure that what should be collected is actually collected.