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<h1>Teacher Compensation Dashboard Publishes Pay, Benefits Data by State<o:p></o:p></h1>
<h3 style="vertical-align:baseline"><em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal">Insights to help policymakers combat teacher shortages</span></em><span style="color:windowtext;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">As state leaders prepare for the 2021 legislative sessions,
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<span style="color:#007C89">a new teacher-compensation dashboard</span></a> from the Southern Regional Education Board provides policymakers and educators a trove of information on how 16 states compensate teachers.<br>
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A click on the interactive map brings together — for the first time, and for each of the 16 SREB states ─ data on teacher salaries, health insurance costs, retirement plans and the resulting take-home pay.<br>
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“Our aim is to help policymakers and educators see the full picture of teacher compensation so they can make decisions that improve our teacher workforce,” said SREB President Stephen L. Pruitt. “Our teachers — and their students — need this now more than ever.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#5C8727">Regional findings</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#202020"><br>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Teachers in the South are paid nearly 21% lower on average than professionals with similar education levels — worse than the national teacher-wage penalty of 19%.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Average salaries, when adjusted for inflation,
<em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">are lower than in the 1980s</span></em>.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">The average salary for teachers in the SREB region was $53,340, compared with $62,304 nationally.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">On average, costs for teachers are lower than for other professionals, but in many states, premiums for family coverage are higher.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">All SREB states, except Maryland, offer two or more state-sponsored health plan options.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">All states offer defined benefit (pension) plans.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Five states offer defined contribution (investment) plan or hybrid plan options.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Most SREB states have multiple pension tiers with benefits that differ depending on hire date.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Not all teachers will be able to save more for retirement in pension plans than in investment plans.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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analyzed what the average teacher brings home in their first, 15<sup>th</sup> and 35<sup>th</sup> year of teaching deducting required retirement contributions, health insurance premiums and taxes.<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">A set of strategies</span></strong><br>
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In <a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsreb.us4.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3Dc67c5841e2df804cf1c9ea093%26id%3D8fdf0c6480%26e%3D2bda7894f1&data=04%7C01%7Celisa.jaden%40sreb.org%7Cde1e0631e4cb4734cb8008d896cbe078%7Ceb20950b168c497a98452b099844f3ef%7C0%7C0%7C637425149675897759%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=%2BycbxdvHt5QMQhzOrv6FH7HmgJ3VnNbhI1gWaEdI0mc%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">
<em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#007C89">New Ideas in Teacher Compensation</span></em></a>, SREB showed that teacher salaries had barely recovered from cuts and stagnation after the Great Recession a decade ago. The report urges states
to build long-term plans to improve teacher pay, benefits, training and support. It also outlines moderate-, low- and no-cost strategies to improve teacher working environments in the short term.<br>
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“Band-aid solutions won’t improve the teaching profession. Now is the time for policymakers to meet this challenge head-on for the years to come,” said Megan Boren, SREB program specialist, who leads the organization's efforts on on teacher workforce.<br>
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Going forward, SREB plans to add additional years of data and hopes to add analysis such as differences in salaries among rural, urban and suburban school districts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Compensation at SREB.org</span></b></a> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h3 align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:125%">Teacher Workforce Policy Resources From SREB</span><o:p></o:p></h3>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsreb.us4.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3Dc67c5841e2df804cf1c9ea093%26id%3Df45b6066e7%26e%3D2bda7894f1&data=04%7C01%7Celisa.jaden%40sreb.org%7Cde1e0631e4cb4734cb8008d896cbe078%7Ceb20950b168c497a98452b099844f3ef%7C0%7C0%7C637425149675907764%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=chDw7tNWNnRedgqr8ruY5gIGfu5fLxrJwuKKT3580mo%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#007C89">Education
Human Capital Roundtables</span></strong></a><br>
SREB is helping education leaders in several states — Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Oklahoma — hold challenging conversations to improve teacher pipeline, preparation, licensure and support.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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2021 Webinars</span></strong></a><br>
A series of three sessions on pathways into teaching, licensure and compensation with lessons from several states.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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and Certification</span></strong></a><br>
Policies and strategies on alternative certification, reciprocity, pandemic flexibility and more.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Preparation</span></strong></a><br>
Research, blog posts and the report of the SREB Teacher Preparation Commission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsreb.us4.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3Dc67c5841e2df804cf1c9ea093%26id%3D69ae9f1085%26e%3D2bda7894f1&data=04%7C01%7Celisa.jaden%40sreb.org%7Cde1e0631e4cb4734cb8008d896cbe078%7Ceb20950b168c497a98452b099844f3ef%7C0%7C0%7C637425149675927750%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=KLZAxFusgIL2CTydU4URQC%2BmzfiajdHA2dYW%2BhWbAiM%3D&reserved=0"><em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#007C89">SREB.org/TeacherWorkforce</span></em></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#202020">A nonprofit, nonpartisan interstate compact, SREB was created in 1948 by governors and legislators who recognized the
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