To achieve the goal of attracting and retaining talented professionals in education, performance-based compensation systems (PBCS) must offer salaries that are both fair and sufficiently competitive at each point across an educator's career continuum. Although many states, especially with the support of the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) grants,…

Discusses a research project on the allocation of teachers' resources in state secondary schools. Concludes with a summary of the major reasons why the development of a reliable and accurate measure that describes variations in "work area" emphasis within and between state educational institutions would be of value. (Author/IRT)