Among regular full-time teachers with a bachelor's degree or less, average school related earnings and selected earning percentiles during the current school year, by selected main teaching assignments and years of teaching experience: 2015–16 (rev)

								Annual earning from all school related sources
Selected main teaching assignment and experience		Total number of teachers		Percent of teachers		Average annual school related earnings		25th percentile		50th percentile		75th percentile
All teachers		1,367,000		100.0		$49,000		$39,500		$46,200		$55,100
Teaching experience
0–5 years		486,600		35.6		41,900		36,000		40,700		47,000
6–14 years		422,500		30.9		47,900		40,100		45,900		53,400
15–20 years		215,800		15.8		55,400		44,900		52,800		64,900
21–29 years		169,400		12.4		58,600		48,900		56,000		67,800
30 years or more		72,600		5.3		61,200		49,900		60,000		72,600
All general education teachers1		631,500		100.0		47,800		38,700		45,000		54,000
Teaching experience
0–5 years		235,200		37.2		40,600		35,600		39,900		45,000
6–14 years		192,200		30.4		47,100		39,900		45,000		52,100
15–20 years		101,000		16.0		54,500		43,900		52,000		64,900
21–29 years		70,100		11.1		58,600		48,900		55,100		67,400
30 years or more		33,100		5.2		60,300		49,500		58,000		72,300
All humanities teachers2		248,900		100.0		49,500		40,000		47,300		55,500
Teaching experience
0–5 years		86,700		34.8		42,700		36,400		41,200		48,100
6–14 years		79,300		31.9		48,700		41,000		47,000		53,700
15–20 years		39,300		15.8		55,800		45,900		53,400		64,100
21–29 years		32,300		13.0		58,100		47,200		55,600		67,300
30 years or more		11,300		4.6		62,000		49,800		60,000		72,900
All arts and music teachers3		86,600		100.0		49,000		39,800		46,600		55,500
Teaching experience
0–5 years		30,500		35.2		42,400		36,400		41,100		49,000
6–14 years		26,200		30.2		47,000		40,800		45,500		53,000
15–20 years		12,400		14.3		53,900		44,300		51,700		61,100
21–29 years		12,700		14.7		57,200		47,900		55,500		68,800
30 years or more		4,800		5.6		68,100		52,000		64,400		77,100
All behavioral & social sciences teachers4		34,600		100.0		49,100		40,000		45,900		55,200
Teaching experience
0–5 years		12,800		36.8		43,700		36,200		41,900		46,500
6–14 years		9,600		27.8		46,200		40,800		45,100		50,800
15–20 years		5,800		16.6		55,100		42,900		52,100		61,300
21–29 years		4,500		13.1		58,100		47,100		57,500		64,700
30 years or more		1,900		5.6		60,500		55,400		61,700		67,300
All career, tech, & vocational education teachers5		76,300		100.0		50,800		40,000		49,000		59,100
Teaching experience
0–5 years		24,300		31.9		43,600		36,900		41,900		49,400
6–14 years		24,900		32.6		50,000		40,000		47,900		56,800
15–20 years		11,400		15.0		57,900		47,100		54,400		64,200
21–29 years		11,100		14.6		56,100		48,400		57,600		66,500
30 years or more		4,600		6.0		62,700		53,500		59,800		70,700
All mathematics & computer science teachers6		112,900		100.0		50,200		40,200		47,200		56,000
Teaching experience
0–5 years		41,400		36.6		43,800		37,200		42,600		49,600
6–14 years		37,500		33.2		48,900		40,700		46,300		53,900
15–20 years		15,300		13.5		56,700		43,700		53,500		64,900
21–29 years		13,600		12.0		61,500		50,000		58,200		71,400
30 years or more		5,200		4.6		62,700		51,600		60,100		72,900
All Natural sciences teachers7		85,100		100.0		49,300		39,400		46,700		56,000
Teaching experience
0–5 years		29,900		35.2		42,300		36,400		40,500		46,700
6–14 years		27,800		32.7		46,800		39,100		45,400		54,000
15–20 years		12,500		14.7		57,200		46,600		53,600		69,000
21–29 years		10,800		12.7		61,500		52,300		57,900		69,800
30 years or more		4,100		4.8		61,300		52,400		60,300		71,000
All other teachers8		90,900		100.0		51,900		42,000		49,800		59,500
Teaching experience
0–5 years		25,900		28.5		44,700		38,000		43,500		49,700
6–14 years		25,000		27.4		50,400		42,000		49,500		56,500
15–20 years		18,200		20.0		57,000		46,200		52,300		67,200
21–29 years		14,300		15.7		58,000		48,800		56,300		67,100
30 years or more		7,600		8.4		57,900		50,000		58,500		70,400
1General education includes: early childhood or pre-K, elementary grades, middle grades, and special education.
2Humanities includes: art history, communications, composition, English, language arts, literature or literary criticism, reading, ESL or bilingual education, foreign languages, area or ethnic studies, government or civics, history, Native American studies, and philosophy.
3Arts and music includes: art or arts and crafts, dance, drama or theatre, and music.
4Behavioral and social sciences includes: social studies, anthropology, economics, geography, political science, psychology, sociology, and other social sciences.
5Career, technical, & vocational education includes: agriculture and natural resources, business management, business support, marketing and distribution, healthcare occupations, construction trades, engineering, or science technologies, mechanic and repair, manufacturing or precision production, communications and related technologies, personal and public services, family and consumer sciences education, industrial arts or technology education, and other career or technical education.
6Mathematics & computer science includes: algebra I, algebra II, algebra III, basic and general mathematics, business and applied math, calculus and pre-calculus, computer science, geometry, pre-algebra, statistics and probability, and trigonometry.
7Natural sciences includes: sciences, general, biology or life sciences, chemistry, earth science, engineering, integrated science, physical science, physics, and other natural sciences.
8Other includes: journalism, speech, health education, physical education, driver education, library or information science, military science or ROTC, religious studies, and other.
NOTE: Estimates are for regular full-time teachers. Earnings from school related sources include base teaching salary, payment for extracurricular activities, and other services provided to the school or larger school system, such as merit pay bonuses and state supplements. Summer earnings are not included. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Teacher and Principal (NTPS), "Public School Teacher Data File," 2015–16.

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