And these numbers do NOT include benefits or retirement. Summer vacation. Lifetime job security.........How much teachers get paid — state by state

And consider if .......say, aircraft mechanics, had the same "success" rate in their endeavours.

How much teachers get paid — state by state:
"How much do teachers across the United States get paid?
Here is data, state by state, collected from the National Center for Education Statistics by Jon Boeckenstedt, associate vice president at DePaul University in Chicago.
The data are for 2013 and represent the estimated average annual salary of teachers in public elementary and secondary schools. "