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Teacher Pay Penalty Dips but Persists in 2019: Public School Teachers Earn about 20% Less in Weekly Wages than Nonteacher College Graduates
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Allegretto, Sylvia; Mishel, Lawrence – Economic Policy Institute, 2020
More than a decade and a half of work on the topic has shown there has been a long-trending erosion of teacher wages and compensation relative to other college graduates. Simply put, teachers are paid less (in wages and compensation) than other college-educated workers with similar experience and other characteristics, and this financial penalty…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Public School Teachers, College Graduates, Teacher Strikes