Sentences with phrase «teacher compensation nationally»

As the study this site recently showed about teacher compensation nationally, teachers are not being over compensated.

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Unfortunately, teacher compensation has not kept pace with increases in salaries in other sectors.38 According to a 2016 nationally representative survey of more than 3,000 teachers, nearly half of teachers would leave teaching «as soon as possible» if they could find a higher - paying job.39 Furthermore, most teachers are not rewarded for working in hard - to - staff schools, in shortage areas, or for their excellence in the classroom.

There's wide variation across states, but nationally retirement costs eat up more than 19 percent of teacher compensation.

This report compiles information on the hourly pay of public school teachers nationally and in 66 metropolitan areas, as collected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in its annual National Compensation Survey.

Research from the Economic Policy Institute shows that teachers» salaries were 17 percent lower than what comparable workers in other fields earned nationally in 2015.47 When benefits were included, teachers still earned 11 percent less than comparable workers.48 The data below suggest that declining compensation has likely contributed to that predicted effect.