Gender pay gaps are lower among public school teachers than among other full-time workers in Pennsylvania: Gender, racial, and ethnic pay gaps among Pennsylvania public school teachers compared with pay gaps among other full-time workers in Pennsylvania, 2010–2014
| Weekly compensation gap | ||
|---|---|---|
| Other full-time employees in PA | PA public school teachers | |
| Female | -28.3%*** | -6.6%*** |
| (Standard error) | (0.004) | (0.012) |
| Black | -7.4%*** | -2.5% |
| (Standard error) | (0.007) | (0.042) |
| Hispanic | -9.2%*** | -12.5% |
| (Standard error) | (0.01) | (0.082) |
| Asian | -5.9%*** | 4.5% |
| (Standard error) | (0.013) | (0.057) |
*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 for specific demographic categories. The weekly 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.
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.
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