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- A recent report highlighted the pay penalty between teachers and college graduates in other roles.
- The author found this pay penalty was at a record in 2022 when controlling for education and other factors.
- Pay is just one issue; the author said "teaching is becoming increasingly stressful."
Teachers have historically faced lower pay than other workers, and the gap got even worse in 2022, a recent report indicated.
Sylvia Allegretto, a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, wrote a report that looked into how the pay of public school teachers looks compared to college graduates working elsewhere.