The teacher pay penalty is higher for men than for women in Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania teacher wage and total compensation penalty using weekly comparisons, 2010–2014, and total compensation penalty for new teachers in 2019–2020 under Act 5 pension plan, by gender
| Male teachers | Female teachers | |
|---|---|---|
| Weekly wage penalty, 2010–2014 | -28.9%*** | -3.3%*** |
| (Standard error) | (0.0138) | (0.0095) |
| Weekly total compensation penalty, 2010–2014 | -23.8%*** | 2.7%* |
| (Standard error) | (0.0138) | (0.009) |
| Weekly total compensation penalty for new teachers under Act 5 pension plan, 2019–2020 | -27.0%*** | -0.4% |
| (Standard error) | (0.0138) | (0.400) |
*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.0001
Notes: Numbers without asterisks are not statistically significant from zero. Table reports the estimated coefficient and the standard error on the indicator for public school teacher. 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. Teacher penalty is the percent by which teachers earn less than comparable nonteacher employees.
Source: Author’s analysis of American Community Survey 2011–2015 data (Flood et al. 2017), Employer Costs for Employee Compensation survey 2013 data (BLS 2013), and Pennsylvania Department of Education-2057 Annual Financial Reports. See appendix for further details.