NEA Pays Lavish Salaries to Headquarters Officials, Spends Only 5.4 Percent of Its Revenue Representing Teachers

People participate in a rally at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 11, 2016, as the court heard arguments in the 'Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association' case. The justices were to hear arguments in a case that challenges the right of public-employee unions to collect fees from teachers, firefighters and other state and local government workers who choose not to become members. AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin

America’s largest labor union is the National Education Association (NEA), organized in 1906 with a congressional charter “to elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching; and to promote the cause of education in the United States.”

Now, 116 years later, the average individual U.S. teacher salary is $60,909, just below the median household income of $67,521 for the country in 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.