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Download full textAllegretto, Sylvia – Economic Policy Institute, 2022
Over the last 18 years, Economic Policy Institute has closely tracked trends in teacher pay. Over these nearly two decades, a picture of increasingly alarming trends has emerged. Simply put, teachers are paid less (in weekly wages and total compensation) than their nonteacher college-educated counterparts, and the situation has worsened…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Teacher Employment Benefits, College Graduates, Wages
Allegretto, Sylvia; Mishel, Lawrence – Economic Policy Institute, 2018
Teacher strikes in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Colorado have raised the profile of deteriorating teacher pay as a critical public policy issue. Teachers and parents are protesting cutbacks in education spending and a squeeze on teacher pay that persist well into the economic recovery from the Great Recession.…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Salary Wage Differentials, Public School Teachers, Compensation (Remuneration)
Allegretto, Sylvia A.; Mishel, Lawrence – Economic Policy Institute, 2016
An effective teacher is the most important school-based determinant of education outcomes. Therefore it is crucial that school districts recruit and retain high-quality teachers. This is increasingly challenging given that the supply of teachers has been greatly affected by high early to mid-career turnover rates, annual retirements of longtime…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Comparable Worth, Salary Wage Differentials, Compensation (Remuneration)
Mishel, Lawrence – Economic Policy Institute, 2012
Over the past few years, as cash-strapped states and school districts have faced tough budget decisions, spending on teacher compensation has come under the microscope. The underlying question is whether teachers are fairly paid, underpaid, or overpaid. In this forum, two pairs of respected economists offer very different answers. Andrew Biggs of…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Opinions, Compensation (Remuneration), Workers Compensation
Morrissey, Monique – Economic Policy Institute, 2012
When most people think of the perks of teaching, an image that comes to mind is a shiny apple presented by a gap-toothed pupil. A recent paper by Jason Richwine of the Heritage Foundation and Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute claims that public school teachers enjoy lavish benefits that are more valuable than their base pay and…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Public School Teachers, Salary Wage Differentials, Teacher Employment Benefits
Bivens, Josh – Economic Policy Institute, 2010
A misplaced obsession with the size of federal budget deficits remains the single biggest obstacle to enacting new measures to create jobs on a scale commensurate with the crisis in the American labor market. Even assuming that budget scoring rules can't be changed, at the very least policy makers should be aware of the true impact a given piece…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Labor Market, Job Development, Federal Legislation
