Researchers
have good data on teachers' annual salaries but a hazy understanding of
teachers’ hours of work. This makes it difficult to calculate an
accurate hourly wage and leads policy makers to default to anecdote
rather than fact when debating teacher pay.
Using data from the American
Time Use Survey, this paper reports that teachers work an average of 34.5 hours per
week on an annual basis (38.0 hours per week during the school year and
21.5 hours per week during the summer months).
When hours
per week are accurately accounted for high school teachers earn in the
range of 7–14 percent less than demographically similar workers in other
occupations. However, elementary, middle, and special education
teachers earn higher wages than demographically similar workers in other
occupations.
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