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Among regular full-time teachers, average school related earnings and selected earning percentiles during the current school year, by selected main teaching assignments and years of teaching experience: 2015–16

 
  Annual earning from all school related sources
Selected main teaching assignment and experience   Total number of teachers   Percent of teachers   Average annual school related earnings   25th percentile   50th percentile   75th percentile  
                           
All teachers   3,555,600   100.0   $56,600   $43,500   $53,000   $66,900  
Teaching experience                          
0–5 years   837,400   23.6   44,800   37,500   43,000   51,000  
6–14 years   1,218,900   34.3   54,000   43,600   51,200   61,300  
15–20 years   711,500   20.0   63,000   50,000   60,000   75,000  
21–29 years   553,900   15.6   66,800   53,500   63,900   79,000  
30 years or more   233,900   6.6   68,400   55,000   66,900   80,900  
                           
All general education teachers1   1,591,000   100.0   55,200   42,500   51,900   65,000  
Teaching experience                          
0–5 years   396,600   24.9   43,600   37,000   42,000   49,900  
6–14 years   540,800   34.0   52,700   43,000   50,000   60,000  
15–20 years   319,300   20.1   62,000   49,100   59,200   75,000  
21–29 years   233,800   14.7   66,000   53,000   63,000   78,900  
30 years or more   100,600   6.3   67,000   53,600   65,200   80,400  
                           
All humanities teachers2   728,100   100.0   57,500   44,900   54,000   67,200  
Teaching experience                          
0–5 years   164,100   22.5   45,400   38,300   44,000   51,800  
6–14 years   257,700   35.4   55,300   45,000   52,100   63,300  
15–20 years   150,200   20.6   63,400   50,000   60,400   74,700  
21–29 years   114,200   15.7   67,400   53,900   64,700   80,000  
30 years or more   41,900   5.8   70,000   55,900   66,900   80,500  
                           
All arts and music teachers3   207,600   100.0   57,600   43,700   53,700   68,300  
Teaching experience                          
0–5 years   46,500   22.4   45,200   37,200   42,900   50,800  
6–14 years   67,100   32.3   53,100   43,500   50,700   60,000  
15–20 years   38,400   18.5   64,500   50,600   61,300   75,500  
21–29 years   37,100   17.9   65,800   51,900   62,200   78,500  
30 years or more   18,500   8.9   74,400   59,000   72,900   89,800  
                           
All behavioral & social sciences teachers4   99,000   100.0   58,400   44,800   54,900   68,900  
Teaching experience                          
0–5 years   22,900   23.1   45,900   38,400   43,400   50,900  
6–14 years   33,400   33.8   56,400   44,900   52,800   64,700  
15–20 years   21,700   21.9   64,600   51,000   61,000   76,100  
21–29 years   15,400   15.6   68,600   56,600   64,800   79,800  
30 years or more   5,600   5.6   69,000   59,600   66,200   75,400  
                           
All career, tech, & vocational education teachers5   165,400   100.0   56,000   44.200   53,400   65,000  
Teaching experience                          
0–5 years   38,000   23.0   45,400   38,600   43,900   52,000  
6–14 years   56,300   34.0   54,200   43,100   51,900   61,800  
15–20 years   31,400   19.0   61,800   50,000   57,900   72,100  
21–29 years   27,200   16.4   63,400   53,400   61,600   74,900  
30 years or more   12,500   7.5   65,100   53,700   60,900   77,700  
                           
All mathematics & computer science teachers6   308,400   100.0   58,600   45,000   54,400   69,600  
Teaching experience                          
0–5 years   69,600   22.6   46,400   39,000   44,500   52,400  
6–14 years   110,300   35.7   55,800   45,000   52,000   63,700  
15–20 years   57,400   18.6   65,200   51,300   62,800   78,900  
21–29 years   51,500   16.7   69,000   54,500   65,900   79,900  
30 years or more   19,600   6.4   70,700   58,400   69,600   80,300  
                           
All Natural sciences teachers7   250,300   100.0   57,900   44,700   54,400   68,900  
Teaching experience                          
0–5 years   58,700   23.5   45,300   37,300   43,000   51,500  
6–14 years   89,200   35.6   55,100   44,600   52,500   63,000  
15–20 years   49,100   19.6   65,900   51,800   62,800   76,800  
21–29 years   37,900   15.1   68,900   54,700   66,700   78,300  
30 years or more   15,500   6.2   69,000   56,000   68,500   82,800  
                           
All other teachers8   205,800   100.0   58,400   45,200   55,000   68,800  
Teaching experience                          
0–5 years   41,000   19.9   47,700   39,300   45,100   54,000  
6–14 years   64,200   31.2   55,800   44,400   52,500   62,700  
15–20 years   44,000   21.4   61,600   49,600   58,900   72,100  
21–29 years   36,800   17.9   67,100   53,800   63,800   78,500  
30 years or more   19,800   9.6   65,700   51,500   64,400   83,100  
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: Teachers include regular full-time, part-time, itinerant, and long-term substitute teachers. Administrators, library media specialists or librarians, other professional staff, and support staff who teach are not included. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), "Public School Teacher Data File," 2015–16.

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