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Average annual salary for private school principals, by years of experience as a principal and affiliation: 2017–18
| Average annual salary | Average annual salary for principals by years of experience | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Affiliation | Less than 3 years | 3 to 9 years | 10 years or more | |||||
| All private schools | $72,500 | $62,200 | $76,700 | $75,900 | ||||
| Catholic, Parochial | 69,000 | 68,300 | 66,700 | 71,200 | ||||
| Catholic, Diocesan | 71,200 | 65,700 | 74,800 | 72,800 | ||||
| Catholic, Private | 85,100 | 75,400 | 92,800 | 84,800 | ||||
| Baptist | 44,400 | 35,800 | 51,300 | 47,100 | ||||
| Jewish | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ||||
| Lutheran | 64,100 | 67,100 | 58,600 | 65,500 | ||||
| Seventh-Day Adventist | 55,000 | 45,900 | 62,500 | 54,700 | ||||
| All Other Religious | 53,800 | 46,400 | 55,500 | 57,500 | ||||
| Non-sectarian, Regular | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | ||||
| Non-sectarian, Special Emphasis | 78,200 | 68,000 | 86,800 | 75,400 | ||||
| Non-sectarian, Special Education | 87,900 | 73,300 | 80,500 | 102,400 | ||||
| ‡ Reporting standards not met. The response rate is below 50 percent. | ||||||||
| 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), "Preliminary Public School Principal Restricted-Use Data File," 2017–18. | ||||||||
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