Teacher Compensation in SREB States - Southern Regional Education Board

Teacher Compensation in SREB States
Takeaways From SREB's Latest Data Dashboard

Publication March 8, 2022 March 2022 | 4 pages

Teacher compensation includes salaries plus health and retirement benefits. Seeing compensation as a whole, including take-home pay, can help policymakers address teacher shortages. This publication highlights important facts from SREB’s extensive Teacher Compensation Dashboard, including salary averages and trends, health benefit premiums, annual pension benefits and average take-home pay.

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To See Teacher Compensation, Look at More Than Salaries
Teacher Pay Is Increasing. So Is the Cost of Benefits

This spring, the National Education Association released its annual teacher pay analysis a bit earlier than usual. This data is widely used across the nation as the main source for average teacher salaries by state. The headline for 2021: Teacher salaries are going up by an average of 1.5% across the nation, and average spending per pupil is up 5%.

This is fantastic news ─ no bones about it.

It’s also not the whole story.

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Takeaways From SREB's Latest Data Dashboard