Study: Teachers’ Professional Pay Gap At A Record High

WASHINGTON, D.C. (CBSNEWS.COM) – Educators may not go into teaching expecting to get rich, but it’s a job that historically has supported a middle-class lifestyle.
That may be harder to achieve today, thanks to years of eroding pay for teachers, according to a new study from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. Teachers now earn 11.1 percent less than comparable professionals, representing a record pay gap between educators and other college-educated workers