New Jersey Teacher Salaries Are Comparable to Professional Pay in Private Sector. Issue Brief No. 5

Autor/in	Winters, Marcus A.
Institution	Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Titel	New Jersey Teacher Salaries Are Comparable to Professional Pay in Private Sector. Issue Brief No. 5
Quelle	(2010), (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Teacher Salaries; Private Sector; Public School Teachers; Labor Market; Comparative Analysis; Economic Factors; Working Hours; New Jersey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehrerbesoldung; Lehrervergütung; Privater Sektor; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Ökonomischer Faktor; Hours of work; Arbeitszeit
Abstract	It is often said that public school teachers are poorly paid. At an average salary of about $60,000 a year, public school teachers in New Jersey take home substantially less pay than do many other college educated professionals. Teachers tend to work fewer hours in a year than do other professionals. Does the widespread assertion that New Jersey's teachers are poorly paid relative to other professionals hold true after accounting for differences in hours worked? This policy brief uses data from government sponsored labor market surveys to shed light on that question. When adjusted to equivalent working hours, it is found that New Jersey's public school teachers earn wages that are competitive with those of private-sector professionals, whose salaries have stagnated or been cut as a result of the recent economic downturn. (Contains 6 endnotes.) (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017. Tel: 212-599-7000; Fax: 212-599-3494; Web site: http://www.manhattan-institute.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10