A recently-released analysis of teacher compensation relative to other professions shows that teachers in Tennessee face a nearly 30% pay gap compared to similarly-trained professionals.

In Tennessee, the story is particularly bleak.

The teacher pay penalty is nearly 30% – worse than the national average.

Tennessee is also now the state that invests the least in public education.

Tennessee’s numbers are worse than the national average – and America’s numbers are pretty sad, too:

Inflation-adjusted weekly wages for public school teachers fell 6.2% over the last three decades, while wages for other college graduates rose 28.8% over the same period.

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