From the ECS State Policy Database: Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....

Teacher Salaries and Benefits 2003--08 MS Word PDF - This ECS StateNote examines National Center for Education Statistics figures on salary and benefit statistics for the 50 states and the District of Columbia. (Stephanie Rose, Education Commission of the States, May 2010)...

Better Benefits: Reforming Teacher Pensions for a Changing Work Force - This report examines teacher pensions and details the problems facing current state pension programs — both the fiscal problems, which are severe, and the educational consequences of these retirement plans. It also offers a specific set of policy recommendations designed to improve the fiscal solvency of state pension plans while also making the new plans more attractive to teachers. The appendix provides 50-state data on per-person state pension plan liabilities. (Chad Aldeman and Andrew Rotherham, Education Sector, July 2010)...