Low Salary Quotes

Being a 'Blue Peter' presenter is not well paid.

For years, my Chinese family supported me, but they wanted me to have an arranged marriage, so I ran away and worked as a waitress. It was a tiny salary, but I was so happy; it was the first time I'd accomplished something.

The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he is sometimes paid as little as an unskilled laborer.

I have been working since I was 20, and I'm 38. I actually once averaged out what I had made over my professional life. I think I could have made that much as a waiter or an insurance salesman. You know, I spent so many years in my 20's making $10,000 a year.

The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he'd have to be a genius... For he will have to feed a family on a policeman's salary.

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

I'm working for the Lord, and even though the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is.

In Liberia, our salary scales are so low that our judicial system has become corrupt over the years. Now, we need to do some things ourselves.

We don't make enough in our job to live the way that we would want to and to have the support that we would need. Most of our income doesn't even come from our salary from our employer and we have to find income from other places.

Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.

Surveys show that many talented and committed young people are reluctant to enter teaching for the long haul because they think the profession is low-paying and not prestigious enough.

I think good teachers are underpaid.

I think I made more money when I was lifeguarding at 15 years old than I did on my first year at 'SNL.'

I mean, look, teachers don't do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.

Having a co-founder is incredible, but it has to be the right person: someone who shares your values and ethics, absolutely, but also someone who has a similar vision for the future in terms of their appetite for risk, for low salaries, for hard work.

Anybody who knows the public school teacher world knows there's not a lot of money in teaching. You do it because you love what you do.

Teaching has always been a poorly paid profession, particularly considering its educational requirements and responsibilities.

The pay is low. The price in privacy invasion is high. The confirmation process is long.