{"id":4170,"date":"2007-02-02T19:40:20","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T02:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2007\/02\/02\/the-myth-of-the-underpaid-teacher\/"},"modified":"2007-02-02T19:40:20","modified_gmt":"2007-02-03T02:40:20","slug":"the-myth-of-the-underpaid-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/02\/the-myth-of-the-underpaid-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"The myth of the underpaid teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe Manhattan Institute has written a report based on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for teachers called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manhattan-institute.org\/html\/cr_50.htm\">How Much Are Public School Teachers Paid?<\/a>. Key findings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>* The average public school teacher was paid 36% more per hour than the average non-sales white-collar worker and 11% more than the average professional specialty and technical worker.<\/p>\n<p>* Full-time public school teachers work on average 36.5 hours per week during weeks that they are working. By comparison, white-collar workers (excluding sales) work 39.4 hours, and professional specialty and technical workers work 39.0 hours per week. Private school teachers work 38.3 hours per week.<\/p>\n<p>* Compared with public school teachers, editors and reporters earn 24% less; architects, 11% less; psychologists, 9% less; chemists, 5% less; mechanical engineers, 6% less; and economists, 1% less.<\/p>\n<p>* Compared with public school teachers, airplane pilots earn 186% more; physicians, 80% more; lawyers, 49% more; nuclear engineers, 17% more; actuaries, 9% more; and physicists, 3% more.<\/p>\n<p>* Public school teachers are paid 61% more per hour than private school teachers, on average nationwide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lefties will no doubt complain about the method, especially the use of per-hour wages, but it strikes me as legitimate. We all take work home, but we don&#8217;t all get summers off. An even more impressive case for the high pay of teachers would include the hourly value of pensions and other benefits, not to mention no-cut contracts. Face it, there are many reasons for poor education in the US, but low teacher pay isn&#8217;t one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joannejacobs.com\/\">Joanne Jacobs<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Manhattan Institute has written a report based on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for teachers called How Much Are Public School Teachers Paid?. Key findings: * The average public school teacher was paid 36% more per hour than the average non-sales white-collar worker and 11% more than the average professional specialty and technical worker. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/02\/the-myth-of-the-underpaid-teacher\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The myth of the underpaid teacher&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-15g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}