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 (rev)

								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		3,111,900		100.0		$56,200		$43,100		$52,600		$66,000
Teaching experience
0–5 years		734,300		23.6		44,500		37,200		42,800		50,400
6–14 years		1,065,800		34.2		53,700		43,200		51,000		61,000
15–20 years		621,600		20.0		62,600		50,000		60,000		74,800
21–29 years		485,200		15.6		66,300		53,000		63,200		78,400
30 years or more		205,100		6.6		67,800		54,100		66,000		80,300
All general education teachers1		1,406,000		100.0		54,800		42,100		51,400		64,200
Teaching experience
0–5 years		351,000		25.0		43,400		36,800		42,000		49,300
6–14 years		477,000		33.9		52,300		42,700		49,900		59,900
15–20 years		281,400		20.0		61,600		48,500		58,700		74,300
21–29 years		207,300		14.7		65,700		52,800		62,300		78,400
30 years or more		89,200		6.3		66,600		53,000		64,700		80,000
All humanities teachers2		630,700		100.0		57,100		44,300		53,500		67,000
Teaching experience
0–5 years		142,300		22.6		45,100		38,000		43,700		51,400
6–14 years		223,200		35.4		54,900		44,500		51,900		62,900
15–20 years		129,700		20.6		62,900		50,000		60,000		73,600
21–29 years		98,500		15.6		66,800		53,200		64,000		78,700
30 years or more		37,000		5.9		69,400		55,400		66,100		79,900
All arts and music teachers3		180,300		100.0		57,000		43,300		52,900		67,700
Teaching experience
0–5 years		40,900		22.7		44,800		37,100		42,300		50,100
6–14 years		57,900		32.1		52,700		43,100		50,000		59,900
15–20 years		33,100		18.4		63,800		50,000		60,700		74,500
21–29 years		32,500		18.0		65,400		51,700		61,700		77,800
30 years or more		15,800		8.8		73,400		58,400		72,300		85,500
All behavioral & social sciences teachers4		86,500		100.0		57,900		44,000		54,200		68,000
Teaching experience
0–5 years		19,900		23.0		45,500		38,000		43,300		50,400
6–14 years		29,300		33.8		55,900		44,800		52,200		64,000
15–20 years		19,100		22.1		63,900		50,400		60,400		75,700
21–29 years		13,400		15.5		68,200		56,500		64,700		79,300
30 years or more		4,900		5.6		68,900		58,900		65,800		75,700
All career, tech, & vocational education teachers5		143,900		100.0		55,700		43,800		53,000		64,600
Teaching experience
0–5 years		32,700		22.7		45,000		38,100		43,400		51,800
6–14 years		49,200		34.2		53,900		42,900		51,900		60,900
15–20 years		27,400		19.0		61,600		49,900		57,600		72,000
21–29 years		23,700		16.5		63,000		53,200		61,100		74,800
30 years or more		10,900		7.6		64,600		53,500		60,700		77,000
All mathematics & computer science teachers6		266,900		100.0		58,100		44,700		54,000		68,900
Teaching experience
0–5 years		60,500		22.7		46,100		38,900		44,200		52,100
6–14 years		95,300		35.7		55,400		44,700		51,900		62,900
15–20 years		49,700		18.6		64,800		51,100		61,900		78,400
21–29 years		44,600		16.7		68,500		53,900		65,200		79,900
30 years or more		16,800		6.3		70,100		57,400		69,500		80,300
All Natural sciences teachers7		217,100		100.0		57,400		44,100		54,000		68,000
Teaching experience
0–5 years		50,900		23.5		44,900		37,000		43,000		50,900
6–14 years		77,600		35.7		54,500		44,000		52,000		62,700
15–20 years		42,600		19.6		65,700		51,700		62,300		76,700
21–29 years		32,700		15.1		68,200		54,500		66,000		77,400
30 years or more		13,300		6.1		68,500		55,700		67,300		80,700
All other teachers8		180,600		100.0		57,900		45,000		54,800		67,900
Teaching experience
0–5 years		36,000		20.0		47,200		39,000		45,000		53,000
6–14 years		56,300		31.2		55,400		44,100		52,000		62,000
15–20 years		38,600		21.4		61,300		49,400		58,700		71,500
21–29 years		32,500		18.0		66,400		53,200		63,500		77,900
30 years or more		17,200		9.5		64,900		51,300		63,700		81,900
1General education includes: early childhood or pre-K, elementary grades, middle grades, and special education.
2Humanities 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.
3Arts and music includes: art or arts and crafts, dance, drama or theatre, and music.
4Behavioral and social sciences includes: social studies, anthropology, economics, geography, political science, psychology, sociology, and other social sciences.
5Career, 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.
6Mathematics & 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.
7Natural sciences includes: sciences, general, biology or life sciences, chemistry, earth science, engineering, integrated science, physical science, physics, and other natural sciences.
8Other 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.
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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