Estimated public school teacher weekly wage penalty, 1979–2018
| Teacher weekly wage penalty | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | All | Women | Men |
| 1979 | -7.3% | 6.9% | -17.8% |
| 1980 | -9.6% | 4.8% | -20.3% |
| 1981 | -10.3% | 3.5% | -20.1% |
| 1982 | -10.5% | 3.2% | -20.5% |
| 1983 | -12.1% | 1.4% | -21.9% |
| 1984 | -10.3% | 2.8% | -20.9% |
| 1985 | -10.5% | 2.2% | -20.7% |
| 1986 | -9.0% | 3.5% | -19.5% |
| 1987 | -8.1% | 4.2% | -19.3% |
| 1988 | -8.3% | 5.5% | -19.3% |
| 1989 | -8.5% | 3.4% | -18.2% |
| 1990 | -8.0% | 4.4% | -19.0% |
| 1991 | -9.3% | 1.0% | -17.5% |
| 1992 | -7.3% | 3.4% | -16.7% |
| 1993 | -5.3% | 4.4% | -14.2% |
| 1994 | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. |
| 1995 | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. |
| 1996 | -6.3% | 0.2% | -16.2% |
| 1997 | -7.1% | 0.5% | -19.8% |
| 1998 | -9.8% | -2.0% | -21.7% |
| 1999 | -11.6% | -3.7% | -23.0% |
| 2000 | -11.6% | -4.7% | -23.1% |
| 2001 | -13.0% | -5.4% | -25.5% |
| 2002 | -13.0% | -6.3% | -24.7% |
| 2003 | -12.4% | -6.0% | -22.2% |
| 2004 | -12.0% | -5.2% | -22.9% |
| 2005 | -13.7% | -6.3% | -25.7% |
| 2006 | -15.1% | -8.3% | -26.6% |
| 2007 | -13.0% | -6.0% | -24.5% |
| 2008 | -14.5% | -8.0% | -25.4% |
| 2009 | -13.7% | -6.3% | -25.4% |
| 2010 | -13.5% | -5.9% | -25.5% |
| 2011 | -14.3% | -7.6% | -26.4% |
| 2012 | -15.5% | -9.1% | -26.4% |
| 2013 | -16.7% | -10.1% | -28.1% |
| 2014 | -17.1% | -11.1% | -26.8% |
| 2015 | -19.0% | -13.7% | -27.8% |
| 2016 | -20.2% | -13.0% | -32.5% |
| 2017 | -20.7% | -15.6% | -30.1% |
| 2018 | -21.4% | -15.1% | -31.5% |
Notes: Table reports regression-adjusted teacher weekly wage penalties (or premiums) for public school teachers (elementary, middle, and secondary) relative to other college graduates. (The figure shows a wage premium for women teachers from 1979–1997.) Dependent variable is (log) weekly wages with indicator controls on public school teacher, private school teacher, gender, and married, along with indicator sets on education (M.A., professional degree, Ph.D.) and race/ethnicity (black, Hispanic, other); also included are age as a quartic and state fixed effects. Estimates are omitted for 1994 and 1995, as imputation flags for these two years are unavailable in 1994 and available only for the last four months of 1995 (see Appendix A for more detail).
Source: Authors’ analysis of Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Group data