California Education Code

§ 42238.015

EDC § 42238.015 Effective Jan 1, 2025Div. 3 · Title 2 · Part 24 · Ch. 7 · Art. 2

Statute text

(a)The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(1)According to 2023 findings from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), inflation-adjusted average weekly wages of teachers have been relatively flat since 1996, finding that the average weekly wages of public school teachers (adjusted only for inflation) increased just twenty-nine dollars ($29) from 1996 to 2021, from one thousand three hundred nineteen dollars ($1,319) to one thousand three hundred forty-eight dollars ($1,348) (in 2021 dollars), where, in contrast, inflation-adjusted weekly wages of other college graduates rose from one thousand five hundred sixty-four dollars ($1,564) to two thousand nine dollars ($2,009) over the same period — a four hundred forty-five-dollar ($445) increase.

(2)The EPI also found that the teacher wage penalty, when comparing wages of teachers to other professions with similar educational and certification requirements, grew to a record high in 2021 at 23.5 percent nationally and 17.6 percent in California, up from 6.1 percent in 1996.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2024, Ch. 345, Sec. 1. (AB 938) Effective January 1, 2025.