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| Table 211.45. | Unadjusted and geographically adjusted average base salary for full-time teachers in public elementary and secondary schools, by highest degree earned and school locale: 2017-18 |
| [Standard errors appear in parentheses] | ||||||||||||||||||
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| School locale | Number of full-time teachers |
Highest degree earned | ||||||||||||||||
| All teachers1 | Bachelor's degree |
Master's degree | Education specialist2 |
Doctor's degree | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||||||||||
| Unadjusted average base salary | ||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 3,323,200 | (22,973) | $57,950 | (174) | $49,890 | (164) | $63,120 | (240) | $66,510 | (511) | $69,520 | (1,220) | ||||||
| City | 969,690 | (18,772) | 59,430 | (323) | 51,820 | (353) | 64,200 | (425) | 65,490 | (788) | 71,240 | (2,201) | ||||||
| Suburban | 1,288,340 | (22,683) | 62,820 | (358) | 53,190 | (339) | 68,070 | (455) | 72,020 | (891) | 69,930 | (1,962) | ||||||
| Town | 386,530 | (11,552) | 50,590 | (334) | 45,470 | (386) | 54,630 | (436) | 58,160 | (1,379) | 62,960 | (1,954) | ||||||
| Rural | 678,630 | (17,549) | 50,770 | (354) | 44,880 | (292) | 55,590 | (520) | 58,630 | (1,019) | 67,060 | (2,402) | ||||||
| Average base salary adjusted for geographic cost differences3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 3,323,200 | (22,973) | $60,640 | (146) | $53,210 | (132) | $65,480 | (211) | $68,200 | (445) | $70,090 | (1,081) | ||||||
| City | 969,690 | (18,772) | 59,900 | (265) | 53,140 | (267) | 64,170 | (357) | 65,240 | (695) | 69,060 | (1,610) | ||||||
| Suburban | 1,288,340 | (22,683) | 63,060 | (301) | 54,100 | (272) | 68,060 | (391) | 71,210 | (801) | 69,290 | (1,770) | ||||||
| Town | 386,530 | (11,552) | 58,880 | (352) | 53,130 | (370) | 63,540 | (489) | 66,270 | (1,596) | 71,760 | (2,567) | ||||||
| Rural | 678,630 | (17,549) | 58,120 | (322) | 51,970 | (277) | 63,060 | (488) | 67,140 | (941) | 75,050 | (2,795) | ||||||
| 1 Includes teachers with levels of education below the bachelor's degree (not shown separately). | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 Education specialist degrees or certificates are generally awarded for 1 year's work beyond the master's level. Includes certificate of advanced graduate studies. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 Data have been adjusted using the American Community Survey Comparable Wage Index for Teachers (ACS-CWIFT). For more information, see https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Docs/EDGE_ACS_CWIFT2015_FILEDOC.pdf. | ||||||||||||||||||
| NOTE: This table includes regular full-time teachers only; it excludes other staff even when they have full-time teaching duties (regular part-time teachers, itinerant teachers, long-term substitutes, administrators, library media specialists, other professional staff, and support staff). Teachers' base salary does not include any supplemental contracts for additional work at a school during the school year (e.g., coaching) or during the summer (e.g., teaching summer sessions). Also does not include any income from nonschool sources. | ||||||||||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), "Public School Teacher Data File," 2017-18; Common Core of Data (CCD) "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 2016; and Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates (EDGE), American Community Survey Comparable Wage Index for Teachers (ACS-CWIFT), "CWIFT2015_County" and "CWIFT2015_LEA" files. (This table was prepared November 2019.) |
