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Among regular full-time private school teachers, average base salary and earnings from all sources, percentage of teachers with earnings from various salary supplements, and among those teachers, the average amount earned from the supplement during the current school year, by affiliation: 2017–18

          Salary supplements
  Average base
teaching salary of
regular full-time
teachers		    Average school year
earnings from all
sources1		    Extracurricular or additional
activities in same school system		    Additional compensation based
on students' performance		    Other school system sources
(state supplement, etc.)		    Job outside the school system  
Affiliation       Percent of
teachers		   Average
amount		   Percent of
teachers		   Average
amount		   Percent of
teachers		   Average
amount		   Percent of
teachers		   Average
amount		  
All private schools $45,300   $47,700   30.1   $3,000   0.6   $2,300   9.7   $2,900   20.7   $6,700  
                                       
Catholic, Parochial 40,300   42,300   22.1   2,600   ‡   400 ! 9.7   3,200 ! 21.5   6,300  
Catholic, Diocesan 40,300   42,400   27.9   2,300   0.5 ! ‡   10.5   1,900   23.2   5,400  
Catholic, Private 52,000   55,100   50.8   3,100   ‡   700 ! 9.9   2,500 ! 22.2   7,400  
Baptist 31,700   33,000   22.5   2,300   #   #   13.2   1,400   22.0   4,900  
Jewish ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡  
Lutheran 46,200   47,700   36.5   1,900 ! #   #   ‡   ‡   15.4 ! 4,200 !
Seventh-Day Adventist 47,900   48,200   13.3 ! 1,100   #   #   #   #   ‡   2,000  
All Other Religious ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡  
Non-sectarian, Regular ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡   ‡  
Non-sectarian, Special Emphasis 47,100   49,300   23.6   2,900   ‡   ‡   9.7   3,800 ! 21.4   5,200  
Non-sectarian, Special Education 49,000   50,700   19.4   2,400   1.9 ! ‡   10.9   2,700   20.3   5,500  
# Rounds to zero.
! Interpret data with caution. The coefficient of variation (CV) for this estimate is between 30 percent and 50 percent (i.e., the standard error is at least 30 percent and less than 50 percent of the estimate).
‡ Reporting standards not met. The coefficient of variation (CV) for this estimate is 50 percent or greater (i.e., the standard error is 50 percent or more of the estimate) or the response rate is below 50 percent.
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), "Private School Teacher Data File," 2017–18.

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