Average base salary and school year earnings from all sources among regular full-time public and private school teachers, by sex, school type, and selected teacher characteristics: 2017–18

	All teachers				Female teachers				Male teachers
School type and selected teacher characteristics	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 sources1		Average base teaching salary of regular full-time teachers		Average school year earnings from all sources1
All public school teachers	$57,900		$60,500		$57,500		$59,400		$59,400		$63,900
Age
Less than 30 years	45,600		48,000		45,600		47,600		45,500		49,500
30–49 years	57,700		60,400		57,300		59,200		59,100		63,900
50–54 years	64,300		66,900		63,800		65,800		65,800		70,500
55 years or more	65,900		68,400		66,000		67,900		65,900		69,900
Years of teaching experience
Less than 4 years	45,400		47,600		45,200		46,900		45,900		49,600
4–9 years	49,200		51,800		49,100		51,100		49,700		54,100
10–14 years	57,200		59,700		56,900		58,700		58,300		62,600
15 or more years	67,200		69,900		66,600		68,600		69,100		74,100
Highest degree earned
Bachelor's degree or less	50,200		52,600		49,600		51,300		52,300		56,700
Master's degree	63,100		65,800		62,700		64,800		64,300		69,100
Higher than a master's degree	66,900		69,600		66,800		69,100		67,500		71,700
All private school teachers	$45,300		$47,600		$43,200		$44,700		$51,500		$56,100
Age
Less than 30 years	36,800		39,100		36,000		37,800		39,600		43,400
30–49 years	45,000		47,500		43,200		44,800		49,700		54,900
50–54 years	46,500		49,300		43,400		45,300		56,500		62,200
55 years or more	51,800		53,400		48,600		49,500		60,700		64,000
Years of teaching experience
Less than 4 years	34,400		36,600		33,400		35,000		37,200		41,100
4–9 years	41,900		44,100		40,700		42,000		45,400		50,200
10–14 years	44,200		46,600		41,700		43,600		51,800		55,800
15 or more years	52,600		55,000		49,500		50,900		61,200		66,200
Highest degree earned
Bachelor's degree or less	38,900		40,800		37,300		38,400		44,200		48,600
Master's degree	52,200		55,100		49,900		52,000		57,900		62,900
Higher than a master's degree	53,400		56,000		51,100		53,200		58,700		62,300
1 Average school year 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 specialist 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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