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School locale | Percent of teachers who were regular 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 | ||||||||||||
Total | 94.0 | (0.15) | $61,600 | (201) | $52,540 | (187) | $66,960 | (249) | $70,480 | (466) | $71,280 | (1,116) | ||||||
City | 94.0 | (0.30) | 63,460 | (376) | 54,310 | (368) | 68,290 | (435) | 73,940 | (941) | 70,290 | (2,007) | ||||||
Suburban | 93.9 | (0.27) | 66,930 | (328) | 55,960 | (334) | 72,200 | (401) | 75,100 | (619) | 78,990 | (1,582) | ||||||
Town | 94.1 | (0.41) | 54,260 | (406) | 49,100 | (497) | 58,220 | (495) | 62,020 | (940) | 55,290 | (1,965) | ||||||
Rural | 94.0 | (0.31) | 53,750 | (337) | 47,930 | (332) | 58,670 | (493) | 59,520 | (759) | 60,780 | (2,283) | ||||||
1Includes teachers with levels of education below the bachelor's degree (not shown separately). | ||||||||||||||||||
2Education specialist degrees or certificates are generally awarded for 1 year's work beyond the master's level. Includes certificate of advanced graduate studies. | ||||||||||||||||||
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," 2020-21. (This table was prepared July 2023.) |