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Average base teaching salary of regular full-time teachers |
Job outside the school system | |||||||
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Teaching main assignment | Percent of teachers |
Average amount earned |
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All public schools | $57,900 | 17.8 | $5,800 | |||||
Teacher main assignment | ||||||||
Early childhood or general elementary | 56,800 | 12.4 | 4,700 | |||||
Special education | 58,200 | 17.8 | 5,400 | |||||
Arts or music | 56,400 | 30.6 | 5,800 | |||||
English/language arts | 58,100 | 16.1 | 5,100 | |||||
ESL/bilingual education | 62,800 | 14.3 | 6,000 | |||||
Foreign languages | 60,600 | 20.0 | 5,600 | |||||
Health education | 58,800 | 24.3 | 7,000 | |||||
Mathematics | 58,800 | 20.0 | 6,800 | |||||
Natural sciences | 59,400 | 20.6 | 5,400 | |||||
Social sciences | 58,700 | 21.3 | 5,600 | |||||
Career or technical education | 57,400 | 26.0 | 9,200 | |||||
Other | 59,400 | 20.7 | 8,700 | |||||
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), "Public School Teacher Data File," 2017–18. |
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