| Table 5. Average annual salary for school principals, by years of experience as a principal, school type, and selected school characteristics: 2007–08 |
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| School type and selected school characteristic | Average annual salary | Average annual salary for principals by years of experience | ||||||||
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| Less than 3 years | 3 to 9 years | 10 years or more | ||||||||
| All schools | $79,300 | $73,500 | $80,200 | $82,700 | ||||||
| All public schools | 85,700 | 80,700 | 85,700 | 90,300 | ||||||
| School classification | ||||||||||
| Traditional public | 86,100 | 81,000 | 86,100 | 90,400 | ||||||
| Charter school | 77,900 | 72,900 | 76,200 | 87,000 | ||||||
| Community type | ||||||||||
| City | 91,200 | 84,500 | 92,600 | 95,300 | ||||||
| Suburban | 96,900 | 92,300 | 96,200 | 101,800 | ||||||
| Town | 77,500 | 73,300 | 77,500 | 80,800 | ||||||
| Rural | 75,700 | 71,700 | 74,900 | 80,800 | ||||||
| School level | ||||||||||
| Elementary | 85,200 | 80,200 | 85,400 | 89,200 | ||||||
| Secondary | 90,300 | 85,600 | 89,500 | 95,900 | ||||||
| Combined | 75,800 | 70,200 | 75,400 | 82,800 | ||||||
| Student enrollment | ||||||||||
| Less than 100 | 72,600 | 65,900 | 71,200 | 80,400 | ||||||
| 100-199 | 77,300 | 72,100 | 75,900 | 83,400 | ||||||
| 200-499 | 82,800 | 77,400 | 83,200 | 86,900 | ||||||
| 500-749 | 89,000 | 85,000 | 89,000 | 92,500 | ||||||
| 750-999 | 93,200 | 84,900 | 95,100 | 97,600 | ||||||
| 1,000 or more | 101,300 | 100,300 | 99,600 | 104,700 | ||||||
| Percent of K-12 students who were approved for free or reduced-price lunches |
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| 0-34 | 91,000 | 85,300 | 90,400 | 96,100 | ||||||
| 35-49 | 81,800 | 78,600 | 81,300 | 85,400 | ||||||
| 50-74 | 81,100 | 77,400 | 81,600 | 83,900 | ||||||
| 75 or more | 84,800 | 79,400 | 85,800 | 88,600 | ||||||
| School did not participate in free or reduced-price lunch program |
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| 83,600 | 72,700 | 86,600 | 87,800 | |||||||
| All BIE schools | 72,600 | 64,100 | 73,000 | 78,700 | ||||||
| All private schools | $57,500 | $48,000 | $55,600 | $64,500 | ||||||
| School classification | ||||||||||
| Catholic | 58,100 | 55,400 | 57,600 | 59,600 | ||||||
| Other religious | 47,800 | 37,900 | 48,000 | 54,600 | ||||||
| Nonsectarian | 75,500 | 61,800 | 71,600 | 85,000 | ||||||
| Community type | ||||||||||
| City | 64,900 | 52,900 | 63,400 | 72,100 | ||||||
| Suburban | 61,600 | 54,300 | 56,900 | 68,600 | ||||||
| Town | 44,300 | 35,900 | 46,600 | 48,400 | ||||||
| Rural | 42,900 | 39,800 | 42,600 | 46,000 | ||||||
| School level | ||||||||||
| Elementary | 55,500 | 45,600 | 53,300 | 62,600 | ||||||
| Secondary | 75,100 | 67,500 | 75,300 | 79,300 | ||||||
| Combined | 55,100 | 45,900 | 52,300 | 63,200 | ||||||
| Student enrollment | ||||||||||
| Less than 100 | 44,400 | 38,600 | 45,600 | 48,600 | ||||||
| 100-199 | 58,700 | 55,500 | 53,700 | 64,900 | ||||||
| 200-499 | 70,000 | 59,100 | 68,100 | 74,200 | ||||||
| 500-749 | 83,600 | 77,000 | 80,800 | 87,100 | ||||||
| 750 or more | 95,500 | 87,500 | 99,000 | 96,900 | ||||||
| Percent of K-12 students who were approved for free or reduced-price lunches |
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| 0-34 | 51,000 | 42,600 | 51,100 | 56,000 | ||||||
| 35-49 | 70,100 | 60,000 | 69,400 | 76,500 | ||||||
| 50-74 | 50,600 | 42,300 | 51,800 | 55,800 | ||||||
| 75 or more | 56,900 | 46,700 | 64,700 | 56,300 | ||||||
| School did not participate in free or reduced-price lunch program |
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| 58,900 | 49,200 | 55,600 | 67,000 | |||||||
| NOTE: BIE school refers to schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) that are operated by the BIE, a tribe, or a private contractor and not by a regular school district. | ||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), "Public School Principal, BIE School Principal, and Private SchoolPrincipal Data Files," 2007–08. | ||||||||||
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