Study: Metro Detroit Teachers Tops In Pay

Science Daily ^ | 1-31-2007

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Study: Metro Detroit teachers tops in pay

DETROIT, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Teachers in the Detroit area have the highest pay compared to teachers in 66 other major U.S. areas, a New York think tank study found.

The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research study found that in 2005, teachers in the Detroit metropolitan area made more than $13 an hour above the national average for their profession, the Detroit News reported.

Metro Detroit teachers earned $47.28 an hour that year, while their national counterparts made $34.06 per hour.

By analyzing data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the study also found that in comparison to other white-collar jobs, not including sales, the average U.S. public school teacher earned 36 percent more per hour.

American Federation of Teachers Michigan spokeswoman Beth Thoreson disagreed with the study's other key finding that higher teacher pay is not correlated with higher student achievement.

"To bring in the very best possible teachers, you have to have incentives," she told the paper. "In this country, incentives look like dollars."

[dfwgator]

Who in their right mind would want to teach in Detroit unless you did pay them considerably more?

[Spktyr]

Well, duh, you'd have to have hazard pay to get people to go into metro Detroit.

[netmilsmom]

And if I'm not mistaken, Michigan schools have fallen from 37th in the country to 41st.

We spend 7500.00 Per student per year.

Anyone want to ask why I homeschool?

[NonValueAdded]

Same system running at 2/3 of their capacity, desperate to close down unused schoolsm right? Of course that top pay is attracting the best teachers and students are flocking to the inner city classrooms like there's no ... hey, wait a minute, I just looked out the window and my sky is polka-dotted pink with orange streaks ...

[Shimmer128]

FYI

[stayathomemom]

Metro Detroit includes more than just the city of Detroit, including some pretty affluent areas,

[RebelBanker]

Are any of these figures adjusted for either regional cost of living or hazardous duty? Inner city school teachers deserve combat pay!

[johnny7]

I guess this means the next Einstein will come from Detroit...

[org.whodat]

That's about $68,000.00 per year, isn't it? Now how much does some schools pay their football coaches.

[Congressman Billybob]

Well, now, let's see what we have. Since highest teachers' pay does not relate to highest student achievement, what DOES it relate to? Could it possibly connect to a corrupt mayor who should have been pitched out on his ear in the last election, but survived with the all-out help of the "teechurs" union?

Congressman Billybob

Latest article: "Announcement: I'm Not Running for President"

[HamiltonJay]

I send my child to private school... the property taxes on my 150,000 house to the local public school district are dramatically higher than the tuition I pay to send my child to a better school.....

Public Schools are a blight that must be removed.

[catman67]

Note that:

$47.28/hr = about $94,500 per year
$34.06/hr = about $68,000 per year

and teachers are underpaid!!

[blam]

"That's about $68,000.00 per year, isn't it? Now how much does some schools pay their football coaches."

Alabama just hired a head football coach at $4.0 million a year. The profits from football fund all other sports at the school. (That's what I heard on the radio)

[org.whodat]

Psst: Teachers are paid on a nine month bases in most places.

[staytrue]

another article on teacher pay.

this is from Ohio

http://columbusdispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2007/01/31/20070131-B3-00.html

[absolootezer0]

so, before we get too much detroit bashing, have you guys ever heard of the exam schools in detroit?
check out renassaince high school.
Grade Point Average: 3.0 for entire school
Graduation Rate:
100% are admitted to a four-year college or university.
75% attend Michigan College
25% attend out of state or Military Academies