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Among regular full-time humanities teachers in public and private sectors, average school related earnings and selected earning percentiles during the current school year, by selected teaching experience: 2011–12

 
  Annual earning from all school related sources
Selected teaching experience   Total number of humanities teachers   Percent of humanities teachers   Average annual school related earnings   25th percentile   50th percentile   75th percentile  
All humanities teachers   679,300   100.0   $54,100   $42,000   $51,000   $63,600  
                           
Selected teaching experience                          
0–5 years   145,000   21.3   42,200   35,100   40,700   47,000  
6–14 years   276,600   40.7   52,800   43,000   50,000   60,000  
15–20 years   110,700   16.3   60,700   48,800   56,000   71,400  
21–29 years   89,800   13.2   62,600   51,000   60,200   71,300  
30 years or more   57,300   8.4   64,300   53,500   63,100   74,400  
NOTE: Teachers include regular full-time in both public and private schools. 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. Humanities includes: communications, composition, English, language arts, reading, speech, ESL or bilingual education, foreign languages, government or civics, history, Native American studies, and philosophy. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), "Public and Private School Teacher Data Files," 2011–12.