--- title: Why some jobs pay more — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Why some jobs pay more», a lesson of the money course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Pay is not a score for how good or important a person is; it mostly depends on how many people can do a job and how much others want that job done. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / Why some jobs pay more # Why some jobs pay more Lesson 30 of the money course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/0/) — Pay is not a score for how good or important a person is; it mostly depends on how many people can do a job and how much others want that job done. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/1/) — A doctor trains for 5 or 6 years at university and more after, and few people can do the work, so doctors earn more; lots of people can learn to clean in a few weeks, so cleaning pays less, though it matters just as much. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/2/) — Picture a football stadium with 60,000 fans and millions more watching on TV: that money flows to the few stars everyone wants to see, so a top player might earn £100,000 a week, which is £5,200,000 a year. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/3/) — Other things push pay up too: danger, like work on an oil rig; expensive places, like London; extra training; and more responsibility; and some things should never change pay, like whether you are a man or a woman. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/4/) — Many people feel it is unfair that a nurse who saves lives earns far less than a footballer; others say pay follows what people choose to spend on; both sides have reasons, and the argument goes on. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/5/) — Jobs that need long training and rare skills usually pay more, because fewer people can do them and they are in demand. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/6/) — Supply and demand means how many people can do a job compared with how much people want it done; when lots of people can do a job, pay tends to be lower. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/7/) — Pay is not a measure of how important a job is: a cleaner on £22,000 and a programmer on £50,000 are £28,000 apart, but both jobs matter. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/8/) — A top footballer might earn £100,000 a week, which is 52 × £100,000 = £5,200,000 a year, because millions pay to watch and buy shirts. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/9/) — A nurse earning about £35,000 a year needs about 3 years to earn £100,000, which that footballer earns in a single week. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/10/) — Jobs in expensive cities often pay more; London weighting is extra pay for working in London, like £35,000 instead of £28,000, which is £7,000 more. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/11/) — A qualification is a certificate showing you have learned something; training at night college took one dad from £22,000 to £30,000, which is £8,000 more a year. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/12/) — Equal pay laws in many countries, including the UK, say men and women must get the same pay for the same work; sometimes it still does not happen, and people fight to fix it. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/13/) — A CEO is the top boss of a company; a CEO on £2,000,000 a year earns 100 times as much as a worker on £20,000; some say bosses earn it, others say it is unfair. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/14/) — Dangerous jobs often pay more to get people to do them, like £60,000 on an oil rig instead of £35,000 on land; this is sometimes called danger money. - ← previous: [Jobs and what people earn](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/29-jobs-and-what-people-earn/) - next →: [The lemonade stand: cost, price, profit and loss](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/31-the-lemonade-stand-cost-price-profit-and-loss/) - ↑ back to [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/)