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Average base salary and earnings from all sources among regular full-time public and private school teachers, by main teaching assignment and school type: 2017–18
| Public school teachers | Private school teachers | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main teaching assignment | Average base teaching salary of regular full-time teachers |
Average school year earnings from all sources1 |
Average base teaching salary of regular full-time teachers |
Average school year earnings from all sources |
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| All teachers | $57,900 | $60,500 | $45,300 | $47,700 | ||||
| Teacher main assignment | ||||||||
| Early childhood or general elementary | 56,800 | 58,200 | 39,300 | 40,200 | ||||
| Special education | 58,200 | 60,300 | 47,400 | 48,900 | ||||
| Arts or music | 56,400 | 60,500 | 50,700 | 55,600 | ||||
| English and language arts | 58,100 | 60,300 | 47,300 | 49,000 | ||||
| ESL or bilingual education | 62,800 | 64,600 | 40,500 | 41,300 | ||||
| Foreign languages | 60,600 | 63,200 | 51,500 | 54,800 | ||||
| Health education | 58,800 | 64,100 | 46,500 | 51,800 | ||||
| Mathematics | 58,800 | 62,200 | 49,000 | 51,800 | ||||
| Natural sciences | 59,400 | 62,400 | 49,100 | 52,700 | ||||
| Social sciences | 58,700 | 62,300 | 51,200 | 54,200 | ||||
| Career or technical education | 57,400 | 62,100 | 49,000 | 51,600 | ||||
| All other | 59,400 | 63,800 | 45,800 | 49,300 | ||||
| 1 Average earnings from all sources is defined as the weighted mean of the amount that regular full-time teachers earned from all sources during the school year. It does not include summer income or income from a retirement pension. | ||||||||
| NOTE: For average base salary, teachers who reported zero are excluded from the table. Summer earnings are not included. 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. | ||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), "Public School Teacher and Private School Teacher Data Files," 2017–18. | ||||||||
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