教师工资调查中国几乎垫底仅为加拿大十分之一_BEC初级作文

教师工资调查中国几乎垫底仅为加拿大十分之一

All currencies were converted into U.S. dollars using a purchasing power parity index based on the cost of a set of items in the United States. But they also compared salaries in each country with that country’s average per capita gross domestic product, giving a sense of how academics were paid in comparison to pay for compatriots in other jobs. Finally each of the 28 country teams was asked whether the average academic salary for that country was “sufficient to support a middle-class standard of living.”

所有的货币都换算成美元，但这里使用的美元并不是通俗意义上的“美元”，而指的是购买力平价指数，也就是教授工资在美国的购买力。不过研究也将各国的工资水平与该国的人均国内生产总值进行了比较，用学术工资与其他工作的薪酬差距做一个参照。最后，参与研究的28个国家小组成员还会被问到该国的平均学术工资是否“足够支持中等家庭的生活标准”。

In terms of purchasing power, newly hired academics in China ($259 per month, as calculated by this particular study’s index) were the worst off, paid less than colleagues in Armenia ($405) or Ethiopia ($864). Academics in Canada, where the entry level salaries averaged $5,733, and full professors were paid an average of $9,485, had more cause for celebration than in the United States, where newly hired faculty members averaged $4,950 and full professors $7,358.