In 2021, teachers’ weekly pay was 23.5% less on average than that of other college graduates. This means that teachers made about 76 cents on the dollar compared to other college graduates.
published by the Economic Policy Institute on Tuesday finds that, while there has long been a pay gap between teachers and comparable college graduates, that gap has recently reached its highest level since EPI began recording such data.
The report notes that this pay gap has been growing larger since the mid-1990s, when it reached a low of only about 5.1 percent in 1993 before it began rapidly worsening throughout the rest of the decade. Colorado, Oklahoma, Virginia, Arizona and Alabama have the highest teacher pay gaps, with teachers making 30 percent less than their college-educated non-teaching peers. There are no states in which teachers make as much as or more than their peers.
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