7. Selected Findings

This section provides descriptive and summary statistics and findings from the Teacher Compensation Survey (TCS) data for school year (SY) 2006–07, beginning with state-level teacher records and full-time equivalent (FTE) counts, base salaries, and teacher characteristics, followed by a presentation of variation in teacher base salary by teaching experience and highest degree earned. Tables are then presented covering teacher characteristics and base salary longitudinal changes over a 2-year span for the four states that can match data to teachers across both years of TCS data (SY 2005–06 and SY 2006–07). Finally, total salary findings are presented. The analyses in this report do not take into account geographic cost differences.