The question posed in the title is a bit loaded. First, teachers will say yes while others will say no. We pulled a couple of charts and information from an article from a May 2018 article published in Intellectual Takeout. The latest data is for 2017. In a report at National Center for Education Statistics we find the following chart: Those figures generally exclude benefits, such as health insurance, paid leave, and pensions. According to the Department of Labor, benefits comprise an average of 33% of compensation for public school teachers. This excludes unfunded pension liabilities and certain post-employment benefits like health insurance, which are not measured by the … [Read more...]