One of the most challenging issues in assessing teacher compensation is determining how much time teachers spend working compared to other professionals. Previous attempts to answer this question have used data that are either unreliable, not generalizable to other professions, or both. We use...

A November 2011 Heritage Foundation report — “Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers” — presented data on teacher salaries and benefits in order to inform debates about teacher compensation reform. The report concluded that public-school teacher compensation is far ahead of...

Studies relying upon household survey data have concluded that public school teachers receive substantially lower salaries than comparably-educated private sector workers. However, any given level of formal educational attainment found in household surveys can encompass a wide range of skills as...