Education Statistics

Julia Dahl tweeted an amazing graph showing how the number of people working in administrative roles in health care is skyrocketing:

Only 9% goes to payment for physicians. The cost of physicians has not significantly increased as proportion of the spend. pic.twitter.com/NJWtsJS6te

— Julia Dahl (@jdahlmd) February 24, 2019

I've been looking at NCES data, looks like there's not a similar effect in education.

In primary and secondary education, spending on instruction is outpacing spending on administrative costs:

Also in postsecondary education, the ratio of faculty to administrative staff is not rapidly changing:

Tuition, however, is increasing:

Even as earnings for 4 year program graduates are not:

Another graph shows this effect by showing that revenues of postsecondary institutions are rising even as enrollment is not:

Sources:

• https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d18/tables/dt18_502.30.asp

• https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d17/tables/dt17_330.10.asp

• https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d17/tables/dt17_314.50.asp

• https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d17/tables/dt17_314.10.asp

• https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d14/tables/dt14_314.10.asp

• https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d11/tables/dt11_258.asp

• https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d18/tables/dt18_236.10.asp

• https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d17/tables/dt17_330.10.asp

• https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/TrendGenerator/app/answer/2/2

• https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/TrendGenerator/app/answer/6/13