In my case…my cousin in Pak didn’t teach. She tutored kids in her home. I was a teacher at that time. Perhaps she was trying to either compare the difference in teacher salaries for Pak and the US…or she was trying to find out how much more I make in comparison to her. If it’s the latter…then common sense should tell a person that an actual teacher (irrespective of geographical location) would in most cases make more than a tutor.
If it’s the former and she was trying to figure out the general difference between teacher salaries between the two countries…then she could have worded her question differently. Instead of asking “How much do you make?” She could have asked in a more sneaky but proper way…“Do you think there would be a great difference in teacher salaray between Pak and the US?”
I’ve had an aunt…ask me the same question. She was visiting the US (for the second time) from Pak. I was in the patio with her…and she asked me how much I made. I told her “Not much”…she pushed again and asked “Phi bhi…kitni milti hai?”…gave her the same response. She finally got it and backed off.
^This happened years ago…it was my first teaching job. And what irks me is that she tried to push the question a SECOND time. And the other thing that irks me is that she tried to take advantage of the fact that I was alone with her in the patio. If my parents were there…she would know better than to ask me such a question. She thought that since my parents weren’t around…that I’d be naive enough to tell her. In my opinion she was trying to see if a TEACHER made more money than her own son. Oh the competition.