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Jessica Featonby, who left her job as a primary school teacher to found an education technology company, said higher salaries would get more people into teaching but the "core problem" was "wellbeing".

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2026

In San Francisco, even $180,000 tech salaries aren’t enough.

From MarketWatch • Jul. 1, 2026

The contract also increases minimum salaries on many jobs by 2.5% in the first year and up 3% for each of the following years in the agreement.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2026

Recruiters also forecast that salaries for holders of other business master’s degrees would slide about 10% to $82,500 a year, from $92,500.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

Out of these meager salaries, they had to buy their own uniforms.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler