By Philip Bump
The Washington Post - May 12, 2015
During his remarks on poverty at Georgetown University on Tuesday,
President Obama noted the discrepancy in pay between two very different
sets of workers.
This comparison has been made before in different ways, but we figured it was worth checking.
The most recent government data on teacher employment covers the 2011-2012 school year. The Education Department's tallies
of all teachers in elementary and secondary schools nationwide found
that they made about $56,600 that year. But kindergarten teachers are a
different group. For that, we turn to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In 2012, the nation had about 158,000 kindergarten teachers, excluding
whose who work in special education. The average salary was $53,480.
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