Not exact matches
While it is well understood that the final -
average -
salary DB plans favor long - term
teachers over short - term
teachers, what seems to have passed largely unnoticed is that that these plans
also inherently favor administrators over
teachers.
We
also eliminated 18 answers of more than $ 50,000 for per - pupil spending and 17 answers of more than $ 100,000 for
average teacher salaries.
We
also asked people to estimate the
average annual
salary of a public school
teacher in their state.
Teacher salaries also vary considerably across states, ranging from a low of $ 34,039 in South Dakota to a high of $ 57,760 in Alaska, with a national
average of $ 47,602.
But
average salaries also depend on the distribution of
teachers at each step on district
salary schedules.
This shift — from a veteran - dominated profession to one more heavily tilted toward newcomers —
also has implications for calculating
average teacher salaries.
Under these plans, a
teacher's retirement benefit is based on a combination of factors: how many years he or she worked, some percentage (
also known as a «multiplier» or «accrual factor,» for instance 2 percent), and a final
average salary (FAS).
Researcher Marguerite Roza and others have produced considerable evidence that
teachers in schools serving the most - disadvantaged students have lower
average salaries... [and] there is
also evidence that these schools tend to have more
teachers with emergency credentials and without regular certification... The problem is that these readily measured attributes of
teachers have virtually nothing to do with
teacher effectiveness.»
Teachers»
salaries are
also lower on
average than those of other workers educated beyond school - level.
«
Teacher retention has been broadly stable for 20 years and the annual
average salaries for
teachers in the UK are
also greater than the OECD
average, and higher than many of Europe's high - performing education systems like Finland, Norway or Sweden.»
Also, the
average teacher salary is 51 percent higher than Chicago's median household income, which is estimated at $ 46,877.
In fact, as Mike Antonucci writes, «Since 1921 (nationally) we have almost quintupled the number of
teachers, more than quintupled the
average teacher salary in inflation - adjusted dollars, and
also cut the student -
teacher ratio in half.»
It is
also true that, on
average, charter and private school
teachers do not enjoy the
salaries and benefits that their public counterparts do.
To make matters worse, Washington State
also has the lowest
average teacher salary of any West Coast state.
However,
salaries have
also fallen on
average for
teachers at a given experience level.