Gender, racial, and ethnic pay gaps are lower among public school teachers than among other full-time workers in New Jersey: Gender, racial, and ethnic pay gaps among New Jersey public school teachers compared with pay gaps among other full-time workers in New Jersey, 2012–2014
| Pay penalty | ||
|---|---|---|
| Other full-time employees in NJ | NJ public school teachers | |
| Female | -22.1%*** | -5.4%** |
| (Standard error) | (0.0041) | (0.0117) |
| Black | -13.3%*** | -6.1%* |
| (Standard error) | (0.0062) | (0.0219) |
| Hispanic | -21.4%*** | -1.7% |
| (Standard error) | (0.0063) | (0.0205) |
| Asian | -6.4%*** | -13.7%** |
| (Standard error) | (0.0076) | (0.0418) |
| Observations | 97,612 | 4,989 |
*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.0001
Notes: Table reports the estimated coefficient and the standard error on the indicator for the specific demographic group. The weekly wage and compensation regression specifications include educational variables of some college, associate degree, bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, professional degree, and doctorate, and also controls for age, age squared, female, black, Hispanic, Asian, married, noncitizen, and weeks worked per year. The hourly wage and compensation regressions add usual hours of work per week.
Sources: Author’s analysis of American Community Survey 2012–2014 data (Flood et al. 2015) and Employer Costs for Employee Compensation survey 2013 data (U.S. BLS 2013)