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The Teacher Pay Gap Is Wider than Ever
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The Teacher Pay Gap Is Wider than Ever

Teachers’ Pay Continues to Fall Further Behind Pay of Comparable Workers

Sylvia A. Allegretto and Lawrence Mishel
EPI, 2016
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Why aren’t more young people choosing to pursue, and remain in, the teaching profession? In this comprehensive report, economists Sylvia A. Allegretto and Lawrence Mishel offer an eye-opening overview of how the present school staffing challenges emerged, as well as a data-backed analysis of the ways that downward trending teacher pay affects schools’ ability to attract and keep the high-quality teachers they need. getAbstract recommends this report to present and future educators and education policy makers.

 

Take-Aways

  • US schools want to reduce class sizes, increase staff diversity and improve student performance, but find it difficult to attract new teachers and keep existing staff.
  • In the 1960s and ’70s, female teachers earned a “wage premium.” As late as 1979, they still earned 4.2% more than comparable female college graduates.
  • Even factoring in the profession’s “benefit advantage,” teachers in 2015 experienced a “wage penalty” of minus 17% and overall “compensation penalty” of minus 11.1% when compared with other types of work.

About the Authors

 Sylvia A. Allegretto is a labor economist and chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the University of California, Berkeley. Lawrence Mishel is the president of the Economic Policy Institute. 

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