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wages than nonteacher college graduates  \nReport • By Sylvia Allegretto and Lawrence Mishel • September 17, 2020  \nIntroduction  \nAs we have shown in our more than a decade and a half of work on the topic, there has been a long-trending erosion of teacher wages and compensation relative to other college graduates.1 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 discourages college students from entering the teaching profession and makes it difficult for school districts to keep current teachers in the classroom.  \nTeacher compensation is not just an issue of staffing: Effective teachers are the most important school-based determinant of student educational performance. To promote children’s success in school, schools must retain  \nSECTIONS  \n1. Introduction • 1  \n2. The analyses • 3  \n3. Teacher weekly wage penalties by state • 6  \n4. Final thoughts • 10  \nAbout the authors • 11 Acknowledgments • 11 Endnotes • 11  \nReferences • 12  \ncredentialed teachers and ensure that teaching remains an attractive career option for college-bound students. Our previous report (Allegretto and Mishel 2019) explains in more detail why providing teachers with a decent middle-class living commensurate with other professionals with similar education is not simply a matter of fairness but necessary to enhance student and economic performance.  \nEPI • CWED View this report [at](at epi.org/207502)[ epi.org/207502](at epi.org/207502)  \nWe provide this update to our long-standing series on the teacher wage and compensation penalty as the U.S. continues to struggle with the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic consequences. While the data in this paper are through 2019 and thus predate the pandemic, our analysis may provide useful insights as schools struggle toreopen. As a country we have yet to make the necessary investments, and pass the needed policies and procedures (e.g., universal mask requirements and testing, tracing, and isolating protocols) that would allow us to achieve some semblance of normalcy. Teachers and other school staff will continue the business of educating students in these trying times. They and their unions will play a critical role in moving forward in an effective and safe environment.  \nKey findings  \n The teacher wage penalty has grown substantially since the mid-1990s. The teacher wage penalty is how much less, in percentage terms, public school teachers are paid in weekly wages relative to other college-educated workers (after accounting for factors known to affect earnings such as education, experience, and state residence) . The regression-adjusted teaching wage penalty was 6.0% in 1996. In 2019, the penalty was 19.2%, reflecting a 2.8 percentage-point improvement compared with a penalty of 22.0% a year earlier.  \n The teacher wage penalty declined in the wake of recent teacher strikes but only time and more data will reveal whether teachers’ actions led to a decline and a turning point. The lessening of the teaching penalty from 22.0% in 2018 to 19.2% in 2019 may reflect pay raises enacted in the wake of widespread strikes and other actions by teachers in 2018 and 2019, particularly in some of the states where teacher pay lagged the most. Unfortunately, the data we have to date are not sufficient to allow us to identify the geographic locus of the improvements in teacher wages and benefits and any association with the recent wave of teacher protests and strikes. Only time will tell if this single data point marks a turning point in teacher pay.  \n The wage premium that women teachers experienced in the 1960s and 1970s has been replaced by a significant wage penalty. As noted in our previous research, women teachers enjoyed a 14.7% wage premium in 1960, meaning they were paid  \n14.7% more than c","cbCaipM8gNo0XJgt","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipM8gNo0XJgt","pdf",794914,14,"English","# Introduction\n# The analyses\n# Teacher weekly wage penalties by state\n# Final thoughts","[{\"question\":\"What is the teacher wage penalty and how is it measured?\",\"answer\":\"It is the percentage difference between public school teachers’ weekly wages and those of other college-educated workers, after accounting for factors that affect earnings such as education, experience, and state residence.\"},{\"question\":\"What were the teacher wage penalty levels in 1996 and 2019?\",\"answer\":\"The regression-adjusted teaching wage penalty was 6.0% in 1996 and increased to 19.2% in 2019, after improving from 22.0% in 2018.\"},{\"question\":\"How do teacher wage penalties vary by state in 2014–2019 pooled data?\",\"answer\":\"State-level weekly wage penalties range from 2.0% in Wyoming to 32.7% in Virginia, and in 21 states plus the District of Columbia teachers earn less than 80 cents on the dollar compared with similar college-educated workers.\"}]","Teacher pay penalty dips but persists in 2019 | PDF",1792047940,35]