Larry Kudlow Thinks Teachers Make $120,000 Yearly

[Igel]

6. And in the right context, that's how you'd put it.

There's be no snark involved, except perhaps for the first, the $7 million, claim. There might be two, the minimum needed for it to be true, but it's far from clear there are two. If it's safe to assume there are at least two, or, even better, a reasonable number (even if it's a minority of them), then the bare plural is just fine.

"Geophysicists make $125k/year" is taken to mean "geophysicists can make up to $125k/year." It might be taken as average, but if it's disambiguated to mean "upper range" instead of "average" few get their nappies knotted. It's certainly not taken to be starting salary.

I've seen people who were particularly embittered, however, try to make it mean "all geophysicists" or "in general". Why? Because it could mean that and they wanted that particular parsing. Context matters.