Stir in lack of teacher mobility, inadequate induction programs, poor working conditions, the lowest unemployment in three decades, and
a growing salary gap between teachers and other college graduates — a difference of more than $ 32,000 for experienced teachers with master's degrees — and you have created the worst shortage of qualified teachers ever.
Not exact matches
«Pay
gaps may start small, but compound and
grow, especially when
salary for a new position is based on prior
salary history,» Cuomo's bill memo states.
Among those informed about teacher
salaries, for example, the
gap between the opinions of the more - and less - educated has widened from 10 to 19 percentage points, while among those not informed, the
gap grew from 5 to 9 points.
Teachers»
salaries still lag behind those for other occupations requiring a college degree, and the pay
gap is
growing larger.
Also, the partisan
gap among those uninformed of current
salary levels persists, and in fact it seems to be
growing.
Data show, for example, that the «teacher pay penalty» (the
gap between teacher
salaries and those of similarly educated professionals) has
grown from 1.8 percent in 1994 to 17 percent in 2015 (Allegretto & Mishel, 2016).
Most estimates put the average annual
salary for young, college - educated workers at about $ 10,000 above the average earnings of their non-college-educated peers, and the
gap grows as the two groups age.
The table provided by the Quartz Media LLC shows that the average citizen of the USA hasn't gotten a raise since the 1970s, and the
gap between those who get high and low
salary has been
growing wider and wider over the last decades.
The
growing gap between the «unrealistic» pay expectations of associates and the
salaries law firms are prepared to offer them is highlighted in Canadian Lawyer's 2013 Compensation Survey.
Indeed, the House Judiciary Committee cited the pay
gap in support of a draft bill, released this past Wednesday, that would increase
salaries in an effort to curb the
growing number of federal judges who resign due to inadequate pay.