Yacht for teacher: public school salary bump.

• Author: Mangu-Ward, Katherine
• Position: Citings - Brief article

DESPITE THE prevailing belief that public school teachers are underpaid, people who go into teaching make more than they would in other lines of work, according to a new study by Heritage Foundation policy analyst Jason Richwine and American Enterprise Institute (AEI) scholar Andrew Biggs.

The study, co-published by Heritage and AEI in November, found that "workers who switch from non-teaching jobs to teaching jobs receive a wage increase of roughly 9 percent. Teachers who change to non-teaching jobs, on the other hand, see their wages decrease by roughly 3 percent." As Richwine and Biggs note, "this is the opposite of what...