On 11Jun2020 0926, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote:
> My reserve experience was the interesting payscale the Cdn forces  > used for infantry reservists in 1987: Half day: $21 Full day: $42 >
Now: Half-day is not 4 hours, it is 6 or less hours. Full-day is not > 8
hours, it is anything more than 6 hours up to 24 hours.
Interesting - NZ's territorial forces were paid somewhat less than that
at about that time, but our half/full days were "three or more hours",
and "six or more hours".

> My mom worked as a university trained nurse in jobs like shift  > supervisor, director of nursing, stand in for CEO and CFO in a 200 >
bed hospital, etc. and my paycheck two years out of college with >
software skills was more than she ever made in any of those jobs > (plus
better benefits except pension). The civilian world is very > different
and it is driven by business logic.
Sort of - high status workers and jobs can get paid more than they are
actually worth to the business. Businesses typically manage to pay women
less for their work than they pay men, yet for many roles they don't
recruit women much (and logically they should, because they could then
pay less for the same output).

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Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>