Table 5. Average base teaching salary of beginning public school teachers, by selected teacher and school characteristics: School years 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009

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Table 5. Average base teaching salary of beginning public school teachers, by selected teacher and school characteristics: School years 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10
	Average base teaching salary in school year
Selected teacher or school characteristic	2007–08	2008–09	2009–10
Total	$36,100	$38,000	$38,900
Age
Less than 30 years	36,000	37,800	38,300
30 or more years	36,400	38,300	39,800
Grade level¹
Primary/middle	36,000	37,400	38,400
High/combined	36,200	38,200	39,900
Community type²
City/suburban	38,100	40,100	39,700
Town/rural	33,400	34,900	34,900
Percent of K-12 students who were approved for free or reduced-price lunches³
0-49	35,700	37,600	39,100
50 or more	36,700	38,900	39,300
School did not participate in free or reduced-price lunch program	32,500	26,500	34,800
¹ About 1.2 percent of teachers in 2008–09 and 1.8 percent of teachers in 2009–10 were excluded from the analysis due to missing values.
² About 0.6 percent of teachers in 2008–09 and 0.2 percent of teachers in 2009–10 were excluded from the analysis due to missing values.
³ About 3.9 percent of teachers in 2008–09 and 1.9 percent of teachers in 2009–10 were excluded from the analysis due to missing values.
NOTE: These estimates include those who provided 2008–09 data during the 2009–10 data collection.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Beginning Teacher Longitudinal Study (BTLS), "First Through Third Wave Preliminary Data File," 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10.

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