What Cost-of-Living Index, if any, should be used in setting local government employee salaries?
Teachers and the Cost of Living – Posted April 10, 2006 Now that the Texas Supreme Court has held that the problem with Texas public education is not the need for more money but the system itself and the need for structural changes therein, lets look at one subject of interest: teacher compensation. A recent study conducted by Danielle Georgiou, Pamela Villarreal, research associates, and Matt Moore, senior policy analyst with the National Center for Policy Analysis bears out my past articles concerning salary administration systems, especially among teachers and other government workers. They found that public officials and teacher unions often compare teacher salaries in a particular city or region against the national average or against other U.S. cities. They assume teachers in areas with higher than average pay are doing well, whereas teachers in areas below the national average must fare poorly. Legislatures in states where teacher pay is below the national average are under cons
