When all job differences are accounted for, the pay gap almost disappears

Re:When all job differences are accounted for, the pay gap a... by whiddershins on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @05:15PM (#14914728)

It's interesting to consider that many of these lower paying jobs - such as teachers/caregivers are very hard to tie performance to profits.

Therefore the market forces are different or nonexistent, who hires a $500,000/year rock star grade school teacher? Even if such a thing exists and has real impact.

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Re:When all job differences are accounted for, the pay gap a... by OJFord on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @06:59PM (#14915449)

I'd have thought that would be easier to do for teachers than for (the implicit comparison) software engineers.

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Re:When all job differences are accounted for, the pay gap a... by sheepmullet on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @07:43PM (#14915704)

Not at all. As a parent I have limited choice in who my kids teachers are. Where I lived I didn't even get a choice of schools.

But the market is clearly there - plenty of people here pay $25-$30k/year for private school. With a small class size of 10-15 students that's $250k-$450k/year.

On top of that most people here pay maybe $10-$15k to schools via property tax. So that's another $100k-$150k.

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Re:When all job differences are accounted for, the pay gap a... by OJFord on Thursday August 03, 2017 @04:57AM (#14918008)

But that's a different issue, I replied to a comment about compensating performance.

There are already metrics for teacher performance (at its crudest: What's the average grade going in and out of the teacher's class?) which could be used to determine salary. (And maybe it is in some places.)

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