Profile for Saharnaz Babaei Balderlou

Saharnaz Babaei Balderlou, Economics, co-authored the article "Balancing the scale: Investigating the effect of frontloading and backloading salary structures on teacher turnover" in Teaching and Teacher Education published on Oct. 20 by Elsevier. She and her coauthors find statistical evidence that offering higher pay early in a K-12 teacher’s career helps reduce turnover among new teachers, but this strategy is less effective for experienced teachers. They also find risks of increasing turnover if mid-career pay is not competitive, so effective salary structures should seek to balance competitive pay over both early and mid-career.

Submitted on: Oct. 22, 2024