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Report Finds Teachers' Pay Is More than Adequate Across the Country

From School Reform News:

The long-lived conventional wisdom is that teachers are underpaid. That belief is virtually unanimous. But it runs contrary to many respectable research studies that conclude teacher salaries are at least equal to, if not in excess of, compensation for comparable occupations.

In their article "How Much Are Public School Teachers Paid?" researchers Jay P. Greene and Marcus A Winters come to some surprising conclusions. According to their findings, "The average public school teacher in the United States earned $34.06 per hour in 2005, and the average public school teacher was paid 36 percent more per hour than the average non-sales white-collar worker and 11 percent more than the average professional specialty and technical worker."

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Posted March 31, 2008.