Table 1. Total number of full-time teachers and median years of teaching experience, age, contract days, and base salary, and mean base salary, by participating state: School year 2005–06

An Exploratory Evaluation of the Data from the Pilot Teacher Compensation Survey: School Year 2005-06

NCES 2008-440
April 2008

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Table 1. Total number of full-time teachers and median years of teaching experience, age, contract days, and base salary, and mean base salary, by participating state: School year 2005–06
Participating state	Total number of full-time teachers	Median years of teaching experience	Median age	Median number of days in teacher contract	Median base salary¹	Mean base salary¹
Arizona	49,385	8	—	—	$40,296	$42,772
Arkansas	28,633	13	45	190	39,969	40,981
Colorado	41,431	9	43	184	42,676	44,777
Florida	137,405	10	43	196	38,014	41,740
Iowa	28,054	15	45	191	40,935	41,145
Missouri	59,991	10	—	183	37,802	40,602
Oklahoma	36,476	12	45	180	33,516	34,631

— Not available.
¹ Base salary is defined as the negotiated annual salary for teaching duties, excluding bonuses and extra pay for extra duties.
NOTE: How to read this table (medians): Using Arizona, years of teaching experience as an example, if all full-time teachers were listed by years of teaching experience, the teacher at the midpoint (median) would have 8 years of teaching experience. Only the listed seven states participated in the Pilot Teacher Compensation Survey. Data for Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Missouri, and Oklahoma are for full-time teachers, teaching at one school with full-time equivalency (FTE) greater than or equal to 0.9 only, and whose base salary did not include pay for other duties. Data for Arizona and Arkansas are for teachers teaching at one school with FTE greater than or equal to 0.9 only. Arizona and Arkansas did not report whether a teacher was a full-time teacher or whether the reported base salary excluded pay for other duties. Data are not adjusted for geographic cost differences.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Pilot Teacher Compensation Survey," school year 2005–06, Version 1a.

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