Table 6. Number of full-time teachers, percentage distribution, and median base salary, by race/ethnicity 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

(22 KB)

Table 6. Number of full-time teachers, percentage distribution, and median base salary, by race/ethnicity and participating state: School year 2005–06

	American Indian/Alaska native			Asian/Pacific Islander			Hispanic			Black, non-Hispanic			White, non-Hispanic
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
Arizona	1,132	2.3	$38,159	545	1.1	$39,379	5,636	11.4	$38,844	1,041	2.1	$40,406	41,031	83.1	$40,654
Arkansas	177	0.6	41,288	56	0.2	39,922	103	0.4	40,263	2,719	9.5	42,183	25,578	89.3	39,738
Colorado	193	0.5	43,143	415	1.0	41,480	2,821	6.8	41,750	663	1.6	43,940	37,339	90.1	42,754
Florida	382	0.3	38,952	1,241	0.9	35,623	14,000	10.2	37,205	19,811	14.4	37,936	101,971	74.2	38,200
Iowa	67	0.2	39,927	100	0.4	38,826	157	0.6	39,940	217	0.8	39,695	27,513	98.1	40,971
Missouri	82	0.1	34,290	181	0.3	39,258	305	0.5	38,355	4,231	7.1	44,485	55,191	92.0	37,381
Oklahoma	1,477	4.1	32,457	142	0.4	31,817	295	0.8	31,407	1,289	3.5	36,568	33,273	91.2	33,510

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, American Indian/Alaska Native as an example, if all American Indian/Alaska Native full-time teachers were listed by base salary, the teacher at the midpoint (median) would have a base salary of $38,159. 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.

List of Tables

Download Excel Excel format

(22 KB)