Efforts to attract qualified people to these fields are made more difficult by inadequate salaries and the lack of career paths.
It depends on what you mean by absurdly high salaries.
That was the government's operating budget, dominated by salaries, subsidies for food and fuel and pensions.
The traditional way has been by listing salaries in the arcane argot of a proxy statement.
Spending is still holding up, led by strong corporate profits as well as higher salaries and bonuses at the upper end of the income distribution.
The Town has responded in recent years by increasing salaries and is considering joining the Maryland state pension system.
Most are lured by tax-free salaries of about $80,000 and sometimes more for overtime and unusually hazardous duty.
People get distracted by the money and salaries and lose the sense of how good the game is.
Dogged by low salaries and low public regard, Russia's police face reforms that may make or break the force.
And measuring teaching quality by salaries is ridiculous.