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SR enlisted with 20+ years in are getting paid roughly comparable amounts. Base Pay for an E8 at 20 years is $4568 a month, with a monthly allowance for housing (assuming dependents and living in Milwaulkee) of an additional $1320. BAS (basic allowance for sustinance; what the military pays you to feed your family) would be another $323. So a pre-tax income of about $74,300 per anum. Add in subsidized health and life insurance (we pay, but it's very little - maybe 3%), and other miscelaneous items (you don't have to pay for glasses, when you deploy you make danger pay, force seperation allowance, etc), and I could see it being about-ish the same.
not that I don't agree that Teachers' salaries are out of whack; the AVERAGE teacher making a comparable income as the narrow amount of our TOP enlisted personnel isn't exactly an apples-to-apples comparison
I don't think the bennies add up to 26k a year to make up the difference. Nevertheless, you're forgetting that this 101k a year for teachers is an average and doesn't include the bennies you used to make up the difference between Sr enlisted over 20 years to the average school teacher. No offense to teachers, but a 20 year career military person has had considerably more training and and a much more arduous life.