Policy Research WORKING PAPERS Education andEmployment Technical Departmeint Latin America and theCaribbean TheWorld Bank February 1993 WPS 1086 Teachers'Salaries in Latin America A Comparative Analysis George Psacharopoulos JorgeValenzuela and Mary Arends A comparison of teachers' salariesagainst the salariesof other workers did not support the position that teachers are either overpaidor underpaid in Latin America. The Policy Research WoikingPapeds dinatethefindinwsof woi progess and encourgetheexcihangeofide&asnongBank staff and a othes inmerested in dcvelopsnentiasues. Thsepapers. distdbuted bytheResearch Advisory Staff, cary thenames of theauthois, drecenlythcirvews, nd shuldbousedandcited accrdingly.Thbfindings.intatio ndsconclusionsarmtheauthorsown.They should not be audbuted to theWodd Bank, its Board of Directors, its managemwnt. or any of its member countries. Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized