College Counselors
Very like college nurses, academics strongly worth college counselors and are keen to commerce off extra earnings to work at a faculty with a counselor. Lecturers are keen to commerce a 12.5 p.c improve in pay, or $6,734, to work in a faculty with one full-time counselor—greater than double the per-teacher price of $2,475 at a faculty of common measurement, primarily based on a mean counselor wage of $81,689. Working at a faculty that employs two full-time counselors is value buying and selling off $8,959 in extra wage to academics, which is nearly 1.8 instances the per-teacher price of $4,950.
College counselors are in comparatively brief provide in American faculties: simply 65 p.c of elementary faculties, 71 p.c of center faculties, and 79 p.c of excessive faculties have a full-time counselor on workers, and 11 p.c don’t make use of any counselor in any respect. 4 out of 5 faculties don’t meet the advisable counselor-to-student ratio of 250:1.
College counselors are skilled to help college students’ psychological well being, together with throughout private challenges and international emergencies. A Massachusetts examine discovered that efficient college counselors additionally increase faculty readiness and academic attainment (see “Higher College Counselors, Higher Outcomes,” analysis, summer season 2020).
Tutorial Coaches
An estimated two-thirds of U.S. faculties provide academics entry to educational teaching, both from a devoted coach or college chief, which is a rising space of focus in analysis and reform efforts in recent times (see “Taking Trainer Teaching to Scale,” analysis, fall 2018). Prior analysis has discovered that academics worth alternatives for skilled development. On the entire, nevertheless, academics in our pattern strictly choose investments in counselors, nurses, and special-education specialists to investments in educational teaching. Lecturers are keen to commerce a 4.2 p.c elevate, or $2,245 in extra wage, for one hour of particular person teaching per 30 days.
Though the provide of teaching doesn’t seem to affect academics’ employment preferences as a lot as the supply of special-education specialists, nurses, and faculty counselors, the worth academics place on teaching exceeds its price. Based mostly on the common full-time wage and advantages bundle of $89,100 and assuming three hours of worktime per teaching session, together with commentary, preparation, supply, and administrative help, a full yr of month-to-month teaching would price $1,511 per instructor—about two-thirds of what academics are keen to forgo in wage will increase for that help.
Childcare Subsidies
To this point, analysis on academics’ preferences has largely neglected the query of whether or not providing academics childcare advantages could be a fruitful technique to recruit or retain academics. Districts not often provide this profit, which can be a missed alternative—a sturdy physique of proof suggests childcare advantages improve girls’s participation within the labor market and the problem of juggling household {and professional} tasks with out institutionalized, family-friendly office helps has lengthy been a prime motive girls exit the instructing career.
We subsequently embrace two childcare subsidy quantities in our survey, each of that are capped at two youngsters: $1,500 and $3,000 per little one, for optimum subsidies of $3,000 and eligible bills like daycare and after-school applications and expire when a baby turns 12.
Lecturers deal with the smaller subsidy as an almost one-to-one swap in pay, whether or not or not they’ve qualifying youngsters at house: the common instructor is keen to commerce off a 5.8 p.c improve in wage, or $3,121, for a $1,500 per-child profit that’s capped at $3,000. For the bigger profit capped at $6,000, academics would commerce an 8.2 p.c pay improve, or $4,411 in extra wage.
Some 43 p.c of academics in our pattern had at the least one little one beneath 12 on the time of the survey; 57 p.c didn’t and could be ineligible for these advantages. We evaluate their responses and discover that, intuitively, the scale of the childcare profit issues most to eligible academics, who would commerce a $3,148 elevate for a $3,000 subsidy and a $5,924 elevate for a $6,000 subsidy. Ineligible academics are keen to commerce off about the identical quantity, roughly 6 p.c or $3,200 in extra wage, for each subsidy sizes. This means that even academics who wouldn’t instantly profit from a childcare subsidy nonetheless worth it.
For a hypothetical instructor making $60,000 with two youngsters beneath 12, offering the bigger childcare subsidy in lieu of a ten p.c elevate could be far inexpensive in the long term. Districts can cap subsidies at a hard and fast quantity, and solely a subset of the instructing workforce is eligible. A childcare subsidy expires as youngsters age out, not like a pay elevate.
