Table 4. Number of full-time teachers, percentage distribution, and median base salary, by years of experience and participating state: School year 2005

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 4. Number of full-time teachers, percentage distribution, and median base salary, by years of experience and participating state: School year 2005–06

	1 Year			2–5 years			6–10 years			11–20 years			21–30 years			Over 30 years
Participating state	Num- ber	Per- cent- age distri- bution	Median base salary¹	Num- ber	Per- cent- age distri- bution	Median base salary¹	Num- ber	Per- cent- age distri- bution	Median base salary¹	Num- ber	Per- cent- age distri- bution	Median base salary¹	Num- ber	Per- cent- age distri- bution	Median base salary¹	Num- ber	Per- cent- age distri- bution	Median base salary¹
Arizona	5,393	10.9	$33,933	13,019	26.4	$35,824	11,955	24.2	$39,849	12,570	25.5	$47,549	5,494	11.1	$56,631	950	1.9	$58,000
Arkansas	1,629	5.7	31,522	5,054	17.7	33,265	5,432	19.0	36,804	7,787	27.2	41,425	6,277	21.9	45,785	2,454	8.6	47,751
Colorado	3,190	7.7	32,608	9,780	23.6	34,348	9,406	22.7	41,067	10,943	26.4	50,331	6,541	15.8	57,952	1,571	3.8	61,027
Florida	11,389	8.3	33,940	27,668	20.1	34,825	23,235	16.9	37,205	26,963	19.6	43,407	19,653	14.3	54,249	9,017	6.6	57,226
Iowa	1,232	4.4	27,864	4,410	15.7	30,872	5,145	18.3	35,755	7,214	25.7	42,968	6,476	23.1	46,825	3,577	12.8	48,753
Missouri	3,977	6.6	29,706	12,866	21.5	32,280	13,768	23.0	36,644	16,272	27.1	42,265	10,569	17.6	48,053	2,538	4.2	52,661
Oklahoma	2,040	5.6	28,100	6,109	16.8	29,500	8,277	22.7	31,400	10,298	28.2	34,860	7,604	20.9	39,800	2,148	5.9	41,900

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, 1 year of experience as an example, if all full-time teachers with 1 year of experience were listed by base salary, the teacher at the midpoint (median) would have a base salary of $33,933. 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. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.

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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