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New study shows total compensation comparable to other college educated workers. Whether public employees are over- or under-paid relative to their private sector counterparts is a source of lively debate. Much of the research on the relative compensation of public and private workers has focused on teachers – the largest segment of the public workforce.&nbs…
The brief’s key findings are: Whether public teachers are over- or under-paid is a source of lively debate. This study sheds new light on the topic by using more accurate estimates of benefit costs. The results show that teachers earn roughly the same as similar private sector workers. However, given cuts to pension benefits for…
