Teachers Face a 17 Percent Pay Cut When They Join the Noble Profession
On average, teachers earn 78.6 percent of what other workers with the same educational level get paid.
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Linking education to U.S. economic prosperity is not exactly a novel idea, and research time and time again has supported this philosophy. However, improving the country's education system could be a long haul, according to a new study by the Economic Policy Institute. The problem? It's hard to recruit the best college grads to the sector when teachers get paid less than other college graduates with similar occupations, the study says.
Here's what public school teachers earn weekly on average. Only the states in green pay their teachers more than $1,000 a week.