Hot for Teacher Pay

A new study, available online, finds that public school teachers are paid pretty damn well when compensation is broken down into hourly rates. According to Michael Podgursky, a Univ. of Missouri economist, when you break down teacher salaries that way, K-12 teachers are pulling about $30.50 an hour, which compares favorably to public-sector engineers ($27.71), ) and accountants ($22.08), among others. Then there's fringe benefits, ranging from near total job security and summers off (with the chance to pick up extra dough for teaching summer school to boot).

Read a summary of the report in USA Today and check out the whole box of rocks at Hoover Institution's Education Next site.

And then tell a teacher friend to do the same.