Among regular full-time teachers, average school related earnings and selected earning percentiles during the current school year, by school type, selected main teaching assignment, and years of teaching experience: 2017

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Among regular full-time teachers, average school related earnings and selected earning percentiles during the current school year, by school type, selected main teaching assignment, and years of teaching experience: 2017–18

		Average annual school related earnings	Annual earnings from all school related sources
School type, selected main teaching assignment, and years of teaching experience	Percent of teachers	Average annual school related earnings	25^th percentile	50^th percentile	75^th percentile
All schools	100.0	$58,100	$44,100	$54,000	$68,500
Teaching experience
0–5 years	23.6	46,100	38,300	44,000	52,400
6–14 years	33.9	54,800	44,000	52,000	62,200
15–20 years	19.6	65,200	51,000	61,500	78,000
21–29 years	16.1	69,000	54,000	65,900	82,000
30 years or more	6.7	69,400	54,700	67,200	82,300

All general education teachers¹	100.0	56,300	43,000	52,400	65,800
Teaching experience
0–5 years	25.5	45,400	37,700	43,200	52,000
6–14 years	33.8	53,300	43,000	51,000	60,300
15–20 years	18.7	63,200	49,300	60,000	75,700
21–29 years	15.8	67,600	52,000	64,700	80,600
30 years or more	6.2	68,200	52,900	65,500	82,100

All humanities teachers²	100.0	59,400	45,400	55,000	70,000
Teaching experience
0–5 years	22.2	47,100	39,600	45,000	52,700
6–14 years	34.3	55,700	45,000	52,500	63,600
15–20 years	20.2	66,300	51,900	62,900	78,900
21–29 years	16.8	70,500	55,000	67,700	84,900
30 years or more	6.4	70,800	55,000	69,800	84,900

All arts and music teachers³	100.0	57,900	44,000	54,100	67,000
Teaching experience
0–5 years	23.5	45,900	38,900	44,000	52,000
6–14 years	31.8	53,900	43,600	52,000	60,400
15–20 years	19.7	65,000	51,800	62,100	77,100
21–29 years	16.2	68,000	54,100	63,000	80,800
30 years or more	8.9	69,900	55,000	68,400	77,900

All behavioral & social sciences teachers⁴	100.0	60,000	45,200	55,500	70,800
Teaching experience
0–5 years	21.7	45,800	37,900	44,200	51,000
6–14 years	35.7	56,100	45,000	53,500	63,900
15–20 years	22.6	69,700	54,000	67,500	85,100
21–29 years	15.3	71,700	56,000	69,800	81,000
30 years or more	4.7	69,300	56,000	68,400	78,900

All career, tech, & vocational education teachers⁵	100.0	59,500	47,200	56,000	68,500
Teaching experience
0–5 years	22.3	49,000	39,900	46,800	54,500
6–14 years	35.7	56,100	46,400	54,000	62,000
15–20 years	19.3	66,300	54,000	61,000	74,700
21–29 years	16.9	70,200	55,200	68,800	82,100
30 years or more	5.9	67,700	56,900	64,500	74,600

All mathematics & computer science teachers⁶	100.0	59,600	45,700	55,900	70,600
Teaching experience
0–5 years	23.1	46,900	38,700	45,500	53,300
6–14 years	34.5	56,900	45,400	54,200	65,300
15–20 years	20.3	67,600	52,200	64,000	82,500
21–29 years	14.9	69,900	54,800	66,800	84,900
30 years or more	7.2	68,800	54,500	68,600	81,300

All natural sciences teachers⁷	100.0	60,000	45,500	55,800	71,900
Teaching experience
0–5 years	22.3	46,100	38,500	44,500	52,500
6–14 years	34.6	57,300	45,200	53,600	66,000
15–20 years	21.6	66,600	52,000	63,400	79,700
21–29 years	14.9	71,900	56,400	68,800	86,800
30 years or more	6.6	72,300	55,600	69,900	83,600

All other teachers⁸	100.0	60,100	46,000	56,200	71,000
Teaching experience
0–5 years	19.3	47,000	38,700	45,000	53,800
6–14 years	32.5	55,800	45,000	53,300	64,400
15–20 years	19.6	66,400	52,200	63,000	79,000
21–29 years	18.6	69,200	53,900	66,600	82,300
30 years or more	9.9	70,500	56,500	70,000	84,400

Public schools	100.0	59,500	45,600	55,000	70,000
Teaching experience
0–5 years	23.2	47,500	39,500	45,000	53,000
6–14 years	34.1	56,000	45,000	53,000	63,000
15–20 years	20.2	66,500	52,100	62,500	79,000
21–29 years	16.5	70,500	55,000	67,400	83,000
30 years or more	6.0	72,600	58,400	70,000	84,900

All general education teachers¹	100.0	58,100	44,500	54,000	67,500
Teaching experience
0–5 years	25.0	46,900	38,900	44,200	52,800
6–14 years	33.9	54,800	44,200	52,000	61,300
15–20 years	19.4	64,900	51,000	61,000	77,000
21–29 years	16.2	69,500	54,000	66,000	81,600
30 years or more	5.6	71,900	57,000	68,500	84,900

All humanities teachers²	100.0	60,600	46,700	56,000	71,400
Teaching experience
0–5 years	22.1	48,300	40,200	46,000	53,000
6–14 years	34.5	56,700	45,900	53,300	64,500
15–20 years	20.6	67,500	53,000	64,000	80,000
21–29 years	17.2	71,900	56,000	68,800	86,100
30 years or more	5.7	72,900	59,400	71,600	85,600

All arts and music teachers³	100.0	58,700	45,000	54,600	67,300
Teaching experience
0–5 years	23.9	46,600	39,300	44,500	52,500
6–14 years	32.0	54,400	44,700	52,200	60,000
15–20 years	19.6	66,000	53,000	62,500	77,600
21–29 years	16.5	69,500	55,800	64,800	81,500
30 years or more	7.9	71,800	57,400	69,900	79,200

All behavioral & social sciences teachers⁴	100.0	61,000	46,700	56,700	71,800
Teaching experience
0–5 years	20.6	47,200	39,500	44,600	51,700
6–14 years	35.4	56,600	45,700	54,000	63,400
15–20 years	23.2	70,700	54,900	67,800	86,600
21–29 years	16.1	71,800	56,700	69,900	80,800
30 years or more	4.6	71,000	58,000	71,100	79,000

All career, tech, & vocational education teachers⁵	100.0	59,800	47,500	56,000	68,700
Teaching experience
0–5 years	22.2	49,200	40,100	46,900	54,800
6–14 years	35.8	56,300	46,600	54,000	62,100
15–20 years	19.4	66,400	54,000	61,000	74,600
21–29 years	16.9	70,300	55,500	68,800	82,100
30 years or more	5.6	69,200	58,200	64,900	79,000

All mathematics & computer science teachers⁶	100.0	60,900	47,000	56,800	71,200
Teaching experience
0–5 years	23.0	48,000	40,000	46,400	54,000
6–14 years	34.8	58,300	46,500	55,000	66,500
15–20 years	20.9	68,900	54,000	65,000	83,500
21–29 years	15.4	70,700	55,800	66,900	85,000
30 years or more	5.9	72,300	57,800	70,200	85,600

All natural sciences teachers⁷	100.0	61,300	47,000	57,000	73,000
Teaching experience
0–5 years	21.7	47,200	39,400	45,300	53,000
6–14 years	34.9	58,100	46,100	54,000	66,300
15–20 years	22.5	68,000	53,100	64,900	80,200
21–29 years	15.2	72,900	58,000	69,900	86,900
30 years or more	5.7	76,700	62,200	73,500	87,000

All other teachers⁸	100.0	62,300	48,000	58,200	72,500
Teaching experience
0–5 years	17.8	48,700	40,800	46,500	54,700
6–14 years	32.7	57,300	46,000	54,200	64,700
15–20 years	20.5	68,500	53,300	65,000	79,900
21–29 years	19.6	70,700	54,800	68,300	83,900
30 years or more	9.4	74,600	60,000	71,900	85,400

Private schools	100.0	46,300	33,200	43,000	56,000
Teaching experience
0–5 years	26.9	37,000	28,500	36,000	44,500
6–14 years	32.8	45,000	33,600	42,300	54,000
15–20 years	15.2	50,400	36,800	46,600	61,500
21–29 years	13.0	53,900	39,200	49,900	66,200
30 years or more	12.1	56,900	43,800	54,000	69,900
¹ General education includes: early childhood or pre-K, elementary grades, middle grades, and special education.
² Humanities 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.
³ Arts and music includes: art or arts and crafts, dance, drama or theatre, and music.
⁴ Behavioral and social sciences includes: social studies, anthropology, economics, geography, political science, psychology, sociology, and other social sciences.
⁵ Career, 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.
⁶ Mathematics & 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.
⁷ Natural sciences includes: sciences, general, biology or life sciences, chemistry, earth science, engineering, integrated science, physical science, physics, and other natural sciences.
⁸ Other 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 and because some data are not shown.
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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