{"id":991,"date":"2018-10-29T09:54:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T16:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winginstitute.org\/news\/?p=991"},"modified":"2018-10-29T09:54:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T16:54:48","slug":"how-does-teacher-pay-compare-to-other-professions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winginstitute.org\/news\/how-does-teacher-pay-compare-to-other-professions\/","title":{"rendered":"How does teacher pay compare to other professions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The teacher pay penalty has hit a new high: <\/strong><strong>Trends in the teacher wage and compensation gaps through 2017 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Given that evidence clearly shows teachers as having the single greatest school-based impact on student learning, it becomes crucial that schools recruit and retain high quality teachers.\u00a0 A key component to this involves teacher wage and benefit packages.\u00a0\u00a0 This study concludes that teacher compensation is falling further and further behind that of comparable career opportunities each year.\u00a0 One metric that can be used to study this issue over time is\u00a0\u201crelative teacher pay\u201d\u2014teacher pay compared with that of other career opportunities for potential and current teachers.\u00a0 This is referred to as the \u201cteacher wage penalty\u201d which calculates wage gaps as a percentage of difference.\u00a0 The study concludes:\u00a0 The teacher pay penalty has been steadily worsening over the last two decades, increasing from a -1.8% wage gap in 1994 to a wage gap of -18.7% in 2017.\u00a0 While weekly wages for comparable jobs increased from $ 1,339 to $ 1,476 over this period of time, teacher weekly wages actually decreased $ 27 from $ 1,164 to $ 1,137.\u00a0 This gap varies significantly between the genders (-15.6% for women and -26.8% for men), across states (from a .3.1% for Wyoming to -36.4% Arizona).\u00a0 The study also downplays the impact of the recent recession on this trend, highlighting the impact of state government decisions on reducing education funding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Citation:\u00a0 <\/strong>Allegretto, S.&amp; Mishel, L. (2018).\u00a0<em>The teacher pay penalty has hit a new high:<\/em><em>\u00a0Trends in the teacher wage and compensation gaps through 2017<\/em>. Washington DC: Economic Policy Institute.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Web Address:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epi.org\/files\/pdf\/153196.pdf\">https:\/\/www.epi.org\/files\/pdf\/153196.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/teacher-pay-gap-2018\/\">https:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/teacher-pay-gap-2018\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The teacher pay penalty has hit a new high: Trends in the teacher wage and compensation gaps through 2017 Given that evidence clearly shows teachers as having the single greatest school-based impact on student learning, it becomes crucial that schools recruit and retain high quality teachers.\u00a0 A key component to this involves teacher wage and&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winginstitute.org\/news\/how-does-teacher-pay-compare-to-other-professions\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-resources","category-quality-teachers","category-structural-interventions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How does teacher pay compare to other professions? - Wing Institute news section<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winginstitute.org\/news\/how-does-teacher-pay-compare-to-other-professions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How does teacher pay compare to other professions? - Wing Institute news section\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The teacher pay penalty has hit a new high: Trends in the teacher wage and compensation gaps through 2017 Given that evidence clearly shows teachers as having the single greatest school-based impact on student learning, it becomes crucial that schools recruit and retain high quality teachers.\u00a0 A key component to this involves teacher wage and... 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