>Interesting, but I wonder:
>(a) if it is only full-time college and university teachers, so that the
>part-time adjunct is removed from the equasion, thus inflating the figure;
Yes, it's fulltime only. If you included the part-timers, I doubt it would bring the median down to the level of janitors.
>(b) how much the pre-K and K teacher salary is undercut by the inclusion of
>very low wage child care workers who work outside of a school setting;
I doubt that they're included, since child care workers are reported separately: median weekly wage $212, $211 for women - again with no male median reported because there are too few of them.
>(c) where the elementary and secondary school teacher would fall.
Here's the whole teacher group:
total women men % women Teachers, college and university 953 859 1038 38% Teachers, except college and university 688 659 768 74
prekindergarten and kindergarten 440 442 98
elementary school 710 697 785 83
secondary school 756 722 803 56
special education 677 664 744 84
Note that these follow an almost perfect stairstep pattern: the lower in grade you go, the lower the wage (and the higher the proportion of women). The field is a perfect illustration of two wage-setting theories: the greater the share of women, the lower the wage, and the greater the "care" component of the work, the lower the wage.
Doug