NCES EDGE Comparable Wage Index for Teachers (CWIFT)

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) United States Department of Education. Institute of Education Sciences. National Center for Education Statistics

Version:  View help for Version V2

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Project Citation: 

United States Department of Education. Institute of Education Sciences. National Center for Education Statistics. NCES EDGE Comparable Wage Index for Teachers (CWIFT). Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2026-04-20. https://doi.org/10.3886/E219221V2

Project Description

Project Title:  View help for Project Title NCES EDGE Comparable Wage Index for Teachers (CWIFT)
Summary:  View help for Summary The Comparable Wage Index for Teachers (CWIFT) is an experimental index created by the Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates (EDGE) program at the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to facilitate comparison of educational expenditures. The CWIFT is a measure of the systematic, regional variations in the wages and salaries of college graduates who are not PK‌-12 educators as determined by reported occupational category. It can be used by researchers to adjust school district-level finance data in order to make comparisons across geographic areas. The CWIFT is based on data from the American Community Survey (ACS), a continuous household survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. The ACS provides information about the earnings, age, occupation, industry, and other demographic characteristics for millions of U.S. workers. The CWIFT measures wage and salary differences for college graduates, using an analysis that is modeled after the baseline analysis used to construct the original CWI released by NCES in 2006.

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Microdata: Yes
Level of Analysis: Local - County, School District; State
Variables Present: Yes
File Layout: .txt
Codebook: No, but there is a definitions document
Methods: Yes
Weights (with appropriate documentation): Yes
Publications: No
Aggregate Data: Yes
Original Distribution URL:  View help for Original Distribution URL https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Economic/TeacherWage

Scope of Project

Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage States, Counties, Local Education Agency (LEA) Areas
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2015 – 2022


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V1 [2025-02-13]

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