Number of regular full-time public school teachers, and among regular full-time teachers, percent that earned income from various jobs outside of the school system and average amount earned from those jobs, by type of job and selected school characteristics: 2015–16 (rev)

		Type of job where teachers earned compensation from outside the school system
				Any				Teaching or tutoring				Non-teaching, but related to teaching field				Other
Selected school characteristic		Number of full-time teachers		Percent of teachers		Average amount		Percent of teachers		Average amount		Percent of teachers		Average amount		Percent of teachers		Average amount
All public schools		3,111,900		17.9		5,100		4.8		5,000		3.6		4,500		9.5		5,400
School classification
Traditional public		2,941,300		17.9		5,100		4.7		5,000		3.6		4,500		9.6		5,400
Charter school		170,600		17.8		5,000		5.9		4,400		3.7		4,600		8.2		5,600
Community type
City1		918,000		17.4		5,500		5.4		5,900		3.4		4,800		8.6		5,500
Suburban		1,188,500		17.8		4,900		5.0		4,600		4.0		4,000		8.7		5,500
Town		372,400		18.4		5,000		4.0		4,600		3.8		5,100		10.6		5,100
Rural		633,000		18.7		5,100		3.9		4,200		3.0		4,600		11.8		5,500
School level
Primary		1,464,900		14.3		4,600		3.9		4,400		2.5		4,500		7.8		4,700
Middle		571,400		18.5		5,000		4.6		4,600		3.7		4,300		10.2		5,500
High		889,800		23.0		5,700		6.4		5,700		5.2		4,600		11.4		6,100
Combined		185,800		20.6		5,600		4.8		4,500		3.7		4,600		12.1		6,300
Student enrollment
Less than 100		44,400		21.4		4,200		4.3		4,500		6.0		4,300		11.1		4,100
100–199		92,300		18.7		4,900		3.8		4,800		3.2		3,800		11.7		5,300
200–499		878,400		16.0		5,100		3.9		4,700		2.9		4,700		9.2		5,400
500–749		872,200		17.0		5,000		4.5		4,800		3.2		4,900		9.3		5,100
750–999		461,100		17.5		4,800		4.6		4,100		3.1		4,400		9.7		5,300
1,000 or more		763,500		21.1		5,500		6.3		5,700		4.9		4,100		9.9		6,000
Percent of K–12 students who were approved for free or reduced price lunches
0–34		988,300		19.4		5,000		5.1		4,900		4.1		3,800		10.2		5,500
35–49		444,300		18.8		4,700		4.7		4,900		3.9		3,600		10.2		5,000
50–74		692,800		17.9		5,100		4.8		4,800		3.3		4,800		9.8		5,400
75 or more		892,200		15.7		5,400		4.4		5,200		3.0		5,100		8.3		5,700
School did not participate in free  or reduced-price lunch program		94,300		19.5		6,600		5.7		5,500		4.3		9,000		9.5		6,100
Census region2
Northeast		596,100		19.0		5,900		5.4		5,900		4.2		5,600		9.4		6,100
Midwest		651,000		19.4		4,500		4.4		3,600		4.2		4,300		10.8		4,900
South		1,256,000		17.3		5,100		4.6		4,900		3.0		4,200		9.7		5,500
West		608,800		16.6		5,200		5.0		5,400		3.6		4,100		8.0		5,500
1Interpret data on city teachers with caution. After nonresponse adjustments, the nonresponse bias for this category is greater than for other characteristics.
2Northeast includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont; Midwest includes Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin; South includes Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia; and West includes Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
NOTE: A regular full-time teacher is any teacher whose primary position in a school is not an itinerant teacher, a long-term substitute, a short-term substitute, a student teacher, a teacher aide, an administrator, a library media or librarian, another type of professional staff (e.g., counselor, curriculum coordinator, social worker) or support staff (e.g., secretary), or a part-time teacher. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), "Public School Teacher Data File," 2015–16.

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