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Table 4. Average annual salary for public school principals, by years of experience as a principal and selected school characteristics: 2015–16
| Average annual salary for principals by years of experience | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Selected school characteristic | Average annual salary | Less than 3 years | 3 to 9 years | 10 years or more | |||||
| All public schools | $95,700 | $89,000 | $96,500 | $102,200 | |||||
| School classification | |||||||||
| Traditional public | 96,400 | 89,700 | 97,100 | 102,800 | |||||
| Charter school | 88,000 | 82,800 | 89,700 | 93,400 | |||||
| Community type | |||||||||
| City | 100,600 | 95,100 | 101,500 | 105,600 | |||||
| Suburban | 105,700 | 99,600 | 105,700 | 112,400 | |||||
| Town | 86,700 | 79,500 | 88,000 | 93,400 | |||||
| Rural | 83,300 | 75,800 | 84,100 | 90,900 | |||||
| School level | |||||||||
| Primary | 94,600 | 88,000 | 95,500 | 100,400 | |||||
| Middle | 98,000 | 92,700 | 98,100 | 106,500 | |||||
| High | 101,200 | 94,800 | 100,900 | 109,100 | |||||
| Combined | 86,500 | 76,500 | 89,400 | 93,700 | |||||
| Student enrollment | |||||||||
| Less than 100 | 86,100 | 77,800 | 87,600 | 94,600 | |||||
| 100-199 | 84,500 | 76,600 | 82,900 | 95,800 | |||||
| 200-499 | 92,800 | 86,600 | 93,800 | 98,500 | |||||
| 500-749 | 98,000 | 91,300 | 98,800 | 104,500 | |||||
| 750-999 | 102,100 | 96,400 | 102,700 | 107,200 | |||||
| 1,000 or more | 111,600 | 107,500 | 111,700 | 115,600 | |||||
| Percent of K–12 students who were approved for free or reduced-price lunches | |||||||||
| 0-34 | 102,500 | 96,500 | 102,800 | 107,500 | |||||
| 35-49 | 95,000 | 87,800 | 95,700 | 101,400 | |||||
| 50-74 | 92,000 | 86,700 | 93,200 | 96,700 | |||||
| 75 or more | 93,300 | 87,700 | 93,800 | 100,300 | |||||
| School did not participate in free or reduced-price lunch program | 92,700 | 77,900 | 96,500 | 104,700 | |||||
| NOTE: Principals who reported an annual salary of zero are excluded from the table. | |||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), "Public School Principal Data File," 2015–16. | |||||||||
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