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Salaries

Economists and experts on wages have long tried to discover
what factors were influencing people’s salaries.
Most of the factors they listed one or two centuries ago
are still important today.
One of those is education: college graduates have earned
and are still earning more than workers
who have only finished high school,
and high-school graduates earn more than workers
who didn’t complete their studies there.
The difficulty and length of preparation for a profession
also plays a part in the size of the salary.
Danger and responsibility make a difference too —
the man or woman in charge of a project,
the person performing a difficult or dangerous task,
the airplane pilot responsible for many human lives,
usually get a proper compensation for their pains.
And yet there are exceptions to those rules.
Due to the needs of modern industry,
technicians with no college education are now commanding high salaries,
much closer to the college graduates'salaries
than they used to be in the past.
And there are many jobs in which danger
doesn’t bring much compensation.
Why doesn’t a fireman earn more than a postal clerk, for example?
And what about the policeman and the coal miner,
who risk their lives for a modest salary?
The answer is simple.
Actually, salaries are governed by a combination of factors,
the most important being one known as the law of supply and demand,
which says that the value of goods and services
is determined by the quantity available
compared with the number of possible buyers.
If there are more chickens on the market than people wishing to buy them,
the price of poultry goes down.
If the number of specialized engineers
is much larger than the number of positions open to them,
the salaries drop even for the most impressive applicants.

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combination [.kɔmbi'neiʃən]

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n. 结合,联合,联合体

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specialized ['speʃəlaizd]

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专门的 专科的

 
modest ['mɔdist]

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adj. 谦虚的,适度的,端庄的

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supply [sə'plai]

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n. 补给,供给,供应,贮备
vt. 补给,供

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quantity ['kwɔntiti]

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n. 量,数量,大量

 
impressive [im'presiv]

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adj. 给人深刻印象的

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compensation [.kɔmpen'seiʃən]

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n. 补偿,赔偿; 赔偿金,物

 
determined [di'tə:mind]

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adj. 坚毅的,下定决心的

 
pilot ['pailət]

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n. 飞行员,领航员,引航员
vt. 领航,驾

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