However, compared to other graduates NQTs feel that their hard work often goes unrewarded.
The researchers from the UCL Institute of Education looked at data from a cohort study tracking around 16,000 people born in 1989-90. By age 26, 291 of the cohort had been teaching for up to three years.
Overall, the teachers reported higher levels of life satisfaction and showed no evidence of worse mental health or less active social lives, when compared to others in the cohort.
Teachers were however less likely than their peers to believe that Britain is a place where hard work gets rewarded. The findings showed that compared to all graduates, teachers are paid around £22 more per week. However, teachers received £54 per week less than their peers working in health and £71 less than those in office jobs.
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