Sentences with phrase «teacher retirement benefits eat»

As a percentage of their total compensation package, teacher retirement benefits eat up twice as much as other workers (10.3 versus 5.3 percent).

As a percentage of the total compensation package, teacher retirement benefits eat up more than twice as much as other workers» (11.6 percent versus 5.4 percent).

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There is considerable and growing evidence that 1) at least half of teachers today will not qualify for even a minimum state pension benefit; 2) state pension funds now carry roughly $ 500 billion in debt and are eating up larger and larger shares of teacher compensation; 3) most teachers would have a more valuable retirement if they participated in a traditional 401k plan; and, 4) today's teachers, to their own financial detriment, subsidize the pension of currently retired teachers.

In our new report, «The Pension Pac - Man: How Pension Debt Eats Away at Teacher Salaries,» we show that, like the proverbial Pac - Man, the rapidly rising costs of teacher retirement and insurance benefits are pushing out money that could be spent on salaries (Figure 1 from the Teacher Salaries,» we show that, like the proverbial Pac - Man, the rapidly rising costs of teacher retirement and insurance benefits are pushing out money that could be spent on salaries (Figure 1 from the teacher retirement and insurance benefits are pushing out money that could be spent on salaries (Figure 1 from the paper).