Data story. Where are the highest paid Massachusetts teachers?
| Title | Suburban Boston teachers are the highest earners |
| Creator | Julia Wolfe |
| Year | 2020 |
| Location | Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library |
| Title | Suburban Boston teachers are the lowest earners |
| Creator | Julia Wolfe |
| Year | 2020 |
| Location | Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library |
Cartographer's statement
Income data is rife with potential for misuse. If you calculate based on an average instead of a median, exceptionally high-earners will skew the distribution. If you look at household income, you’re not counting households with multiple earners the same way you’re counting households with only one person with an income. That doesn’t mean we can never try to answer ‘Where are we underpaying our teachers the most?’ It just means the answer will vary based on how you frame the question.
Cartographer
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Julia Wolfe is the Associate Editor for Graphics and Interactives at Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight statistical analysis news. Previously, she worked at The Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star. She is also an adjunct lecturer at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism where she teaches data-visualization courses.