Teachers’ salaries have changed little for more than five decades, a recent report said.
Nonprofit research and data analysis firm, Network Contagion Research Institute, stated in a May 18 report that teacher wages have remained “essentially flat” for more than 50 years, according to an analysis of figures adjusted for inflation.
The report, citing information from the National Center for Education Statistics, said the average teacher salary for the 2021–2022 academic year was $66,397.
Adjusted for inflation, that’s 7.8 percent less “in real purchasing power than teachers earned a decade prior and is scarcely distinguishable from the inflation-adjusted equivalent of $64,401 that teachers earned in the 1969–1970 school year.”…
Teachers’ Wages ‘Essentially Flat’ for 50 Years, Analysis Says
