Teacher pay penalty still looms large

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Summary: Teacher pay has suffered a sharp decline compared with the pay of other college-educated workers. On average, teachers made 26.4% less than other similarly educated professionals in 2022—the lowest level since 1960.

Key findings

The pay penalty for teachers—the gap between the weekly wages of teachers and college graduates working in other professions—grew to a record 26.4% in 2022, a significant increase from 6.1% in 1996.

Although teachers tend to receive better benefits packages than other professionals do, this advantage is not large enough to offset the growing wage penalty for teachers.

On average, teachers earned 73.6 cents for every dollar that other professionals made in 2022. This is much less than the 93.9 cents on the dollar they made in 1996.

https://www.epi.org/publication/teacher-pay-in-2022/?mc_cid=f250e9298e&mc_eid=56485f06ea

[BigmanPigman]

1. I was ranting about this fact with a teacher/friend

last week. Teachers can do the math and they know that babysitting individual kids would pay you a lot more than teaching. The BS that goes along with teaching is the other half of this shit show. Little, if any, respect, overworked, unable to afford to live in their own district and 3 out of 5 new teachers leave their very expensive college teaching degrees for a different profession altogether. THAT is how awful it is.