What percent of the employable adult US population become teachers?
My high school graduating class seems to have a very large number of students becoming teachers, I am wondering of the average 100 people how many are teachers?
I tried to find it on the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but couldn’t get a clear answer.
Thanks 
easy to calculate:
people under 20: 27.6 %
people over 65: 12.6%
popualtion of US: 310 million
that leaves 59.8% eligible to be employed (185.38 million)
There are 4.2 million teachers in the US
4.2/185.83 = which is 2.23 percent of the working age population.
The reason you see so many of your classmates saying they want to be teachers is that teaching is the one profession that *everyone* has an experience with. They wont all stick with it.
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easy to calculate:
people under 20: 27.6 %
people over 65: 12.6%
popualtion of US: 310 million
that leaves 59.8% eligible to be employed (185.38 million)
There are 4.2 million teachers in the US
4.2/185.83 = which is 2.23 percent of the working age population.
The reason you see so many of your classmates saying they want to be teachers is that teaching is the one profession that *everyone* has an experience with. They wont all stick with it.
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