Chart: Relative pay for teachers is far lower in the United States than in other OECD countries: Pay of public primary school teachers, as a percentage, relative to other college graduates, most recent year available, 2017–2019

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Relative pay for teachers is far lower in the United States than in other OECD countries: Pay of public primary school teachers, as a percentage, relative to other college graduates, most recent year available, 2017–2019

Country	Primary school teachers
United States	61%
Hungary	61
Italy	66
Slovak Rep.	72
Czech Rep.	74
Austria	75
Greece	75
Netherlands	76
Norway	76
Chile	78
France	78
Sweden	80
Denmark	83
New Zealand	85
Ireland	86
OECD average	86
Slovenia	86
EU22 average	87
Israel	87
Australia	88
Finland	88
Germany	92
Estonia	95
Lithuania	119
Costa Rica	122
Portugal	134
Latvia	137

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Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), “Teachers’ and School Heads’ Actual Salaries Relative to Earnings of Tertiary Educated Workers (2020),” Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators, 2021.

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