The word hamartia may sound strange, but it actually has a simple meaning â hamartia is simply the tragic flaw or fatal flaw of a character in literature or film.
The average starting teacher salary for the country that year was $36,141. But that's only the starting salary, which can be an unreliable indicator of the overall pay structure in a school system. How high salaries go â and how quickly they climb â is subject to a number of factors discussed below.
At that level, teachers would compare to the earnings of network and computer systems administrators ($77,910 per year), nuclear power reactor operators ($78,400), chiropractors ($78,410), and architects ($79,650). Again, these comparisons do not seem to indicate teachers are underpaid.