What countries pay their physics teachers the most?

[DoesntCommute]

I'm looking to live abroad for a while and save up some money before starting grad school. I have a bachelors in physics and philosophy and I think I'd enjoy working as a physics teacher at the high-school level; are there any countries (preferably with a substantial english-speaking population) that pay their physics teachers especially well?

 

[jtbell]

"Abroad" is a relative term, whose meaning depends on where you are now.

 

[Mépris]

I have been helping out random people at school with Maths and Physics over the past month or so and it's been somewhat fun. I wouldn't want to dismiss teaching immediately, so a similar question comes to mind: what kind of salary could one expect as a Physics/Chemistry/Maths (all three or one/two of the three) at the high school level? In the US? Europe? I don't know much about the "value of money" but how would that stack up as opposed say, a doctor's or lawyer's salary in the same country?

I'm not just interested in money (as long as I have something mildly interesting to keep me busy, I'm all good) but maybe around that time, I'll want to have a kid (god forbid) and I'd want to settle down, give him/her nice things, etc.

 

[Cod]

According to an education report on one of the US news outlets (I want to say it was Bret Baier on Foxnews), the highest paid, most respected teachers are in South Korea and Singapore. Both countries only allow / pick the brightest students to pursue the teaching profession and the teachers are constantly scrutinized anytime the teachers are "lacking" and are immediately sent to re-training before being run out of the profession.

I cannot find a link to the report, but here are some links which pretty much say the same things:

http://educationinjapan.wordpress.c...hat-it-takes-to-have-the-best-school-systems/
http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/9943258/article-Why-aren-t-our-teachers-the-best-and-the-brightest-