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About 1 in 6 U.S. teachers work second jobs

Short Reads Archive | Pew Research Center · Beshay · last updated

Many public school teachers in the United States are dissatisfied with their pay. That may help explain why a sizable share of them have a second job – and not just in the summertime.

For the 2020-21 school year – the most recent year with available data – 16% of full-time public elementary and secondary school teachers in the U.S. worked a nonschool job over the summer. A similar share (17%) did so during the school year, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

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