To go carefully through why those particular jobs are the highest paid state employees in those states, it’s like this: In general, state employees are not particularly well-paid. That includes everyone, from the janitors who clean the governor’s office to the governor himself. The lower-level employees like janitors might be a bit better paid than similar employees in private companies, while the governor isn’t nearly as well paid as the CEO of a private company with as many employees as there are state employees in that state.
State universities are allowed to be the exception to this. There are state universities in each state, usually with the name “The University of X,” “X State University,” of “X University,” that are fairly large. They generally have O.K. to top-notch graduate and professional schools. They also have athletic teams that most people in the state consider to be “their” team, the one that they cheer at when they appear on TV, for instance. For that reason, these teams tend to make money for the school because of the tickets they sell for admission to their games and the money they get for allowing their games to be shown on TV and the sales of merchandise with their names on it.
Because of this, such big state universities tend to pay the coaches of these teams very well. They don’t, of course, pay their players anything, although they give them free tuition and room and board. The four big team sports, at the high school, college, and professional level, in the U.S. are football, basketball, hockey, and baseball. Because there is a strong professional minor-league tradition in the U.S., it’s not as necessary for a baseball player to work their way up to professional status via college teams. This is why the largest number of the highest paid state employees are football coaches, followed by basketball coaches. In one case it’s the hockey coach.
The other extremely well-paid jobs at these state universities are the president of the university, the head of the medical school, and the head of the law school (and to a lesser degree the professors in those two schools). Professors in the medical schools and the law schools are people who could be well-paid doctors and lawyers and who are thus better paid than most professors, even professors who are at the top of their field for non-medical, non-legal academic areas. That is why these are the other top-paying jobs beside coaches.
No, I don’t get your distinction. The implication is that the US is so backwards because it forces people to work or suffer the consequences. And I am saying that if there is no federal law (and maybe there shouldn’t be), doesn’t mean that no state offers it.
E.g.: California. It’s not perfect, but it’s wrong to say that it doesn’t exist. Other states may have their own. Note that the father can take leave as well. The other stipulations you add aren’t mentioned by the map.
Do you really think that sleazy cosmetic surgeons want to take a pay cut to teach at a school?
William A. Zamboni - I didn’t look hard enough to find his specialty, but he is the head of surgery of all types, whether or not he specializes in plastic surgery (I will note, one of the longest schooling in med school). He likely trains people in more aspects than that.
Kayvan T. Khiabani specializes in plastic reconstructive, hand and microsurgery. You know, if you meet a band saw in the wrong way, not because you need bigger lips.
Strange. I thought it would be beer, but I can understand why as wine is generally stronger than beer.
I find it interesting that Andersson is noted as the most common name in Sweden as that is a very resent thing. It was just the other month I read that it had surpassed Johansson.
The flag map is a bit incorrect. Greenland has its own flag and doesn’t use the Danish one.
Not only doesn’t my state contain one of those counties, but none of the states adjacent to my state contain one of those counties.
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You knew you lived in the middle of nowhere.
I did, indeed. The population density in my county is three dwellings per square mile.
Of course, the county includes a whole lot of national forest, wilderness, BLM land, state-owned land, and an Indian reservation, but that’s still pretty darned low-density.
