Among regular full-time teachers with a master's degree, 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		1,455,200		100.0		$61,300		$48,200		$57,800		$72,000
Teaching experience
0–5 years		216,100		14.8		49,200		41,800		48,000		55,300
6–14 years		540,100		37.1		57,200		46,500		54,000		65,500
15–20 years		336,000		23.1		66,000		52,700		63,000		78,200
21–29 years		256,500		17.6		70,100		56,000		67,100		82,000
30 years or more		106,600		7.3		70,600		57,800		69,200		83,200
All general education teachers1		642,700		100.0		59,900		47,600		56,000		70,700
Teaching experience
0–5 years		99,800		15.5		48,900		41,700		47,700		54,400
6–14 years		237,100		36.9		55,400		45,200		52,400		62,900
15–20 years		150,900		23.5		65,200		52,000		62,100		78,000
21–29 years		110,600		17.2		68,500		54,500		66,100		80,900
30 years or more		44,300		6.9		69,500		56,900		66,800		82,800
All humanities teachers2		313,600		100.0		61,200		48,000		57,800		71,500
Teaching experience
0–5 years		49,600		15.8		48,500		41,900		47,900		54,500
6–14 years		119,500		38.1		58,000		47,000		55,000		67,300
15–20 years		72,200		23.0		65,600		52,200		62,200		77,100
21–29 years		52,600		16.8		70,600		56,900		67,100		81,300
30 years or more		19,700		6.3		70,600		55,900		66,300		80,400
All arts and music teachers3		81,400		100.0		64,000		49,800		60,000		75,600
Teaching experience
0–5 years		8,800		10.8		52,100		40,300		47,800		57,500
6–14 years		28,600		35.2		57,100		45,900		54,200		66,400
15–20 years		17,600		21.7		68,800		57,000		67,300		82,100
21–29 years		16,600		20.3		70,900		55,000		65,300		84,000
30 years or more		9,800		12.0		74,400		60,700		73,400		84,200
All behavioral & social sciences teachers4		43,100		100.0		63,300		49,000		59,900		73,000
Teaching experience
0–5 years		6,000		13.9		47,500		41,600		45,600		52,100
6–14 years		16,800		39.0		59,500		48,200		55,500		67,600
15–20 years		11,200		25.9		68,600		55,000		65,900		77,900
21–29 years		7,000		16.3		74,900		59,000		69,300		85,900
30 years or more		2,100		4.9		71,700		58,400		69,100		78,300
All career, tech, & vocational education teachers5		54,400		100.0		60,700		48,600		56,400		70,700
Teaching experience
0–5 years		7,100		13.1		47,800		40,700		47,000		52,600
6–14 years		19,300		35.6		58,200		47,000		54,300		66,100
15–20 years		13,000		24.0		63,200		51,100		59,700		74,800
21–29 years		10,500		19.3		70,000		55,400		66,300		81,300
30 years or more		4,400		8.0		62,600		49,500		59,200		71,800
All mathematics & computer science teachers6		131,600		100.0		63,700		50,000		60,000		75,900
Teaching experience
0–5 years		17,400		13.3		51,100		43,200		50,000		56,200
6–14 years		49,100		37.3		59,500		47,500		55,600		69,800
15–20 years		28,600		21.7		67,900		53,900		65,500		81,100
21–29 years		26,500		20.1		71,500		55,100		68,700		83,800
30 years or more		10,000		7.6		74,100		61,800		70,800		86,100
All Natural sciences teachers7		112,000		100.0		62,000		48,700		58,600		72,600
Teaching experience
0–5 years		18,000		16.1		48,300		40,000		47,700		57,100
6–14 years		43,400		38.7		58,600		47,900		55,000		67,300
15–20 years		24,500		21.9		68,600		53,700		64,800		80,700
21–29 years		17,800		15.9		70,500		55,200		68,500		80,600
30 years or more		8,300		7.4		72,100		59,600		70,000		85,200
All other teachers8		76,400		100.0		64,300		50,400		60,300		76,100
Teaching experience
0–5 years		9,300		12.2		53,900		41,900		49,600		61,500
6–14 years		26,100		34.2		59,900		47,900		55,600		67,400
15–20 years		17,900		23.4		65,700		54,900		61,900		77,200
21–29 years		15,000		19.6		73,300		59,400		71,200		83,900
30 years or more		8,100		10.6		70,100		57,100		67,700		90,700
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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