Average base teaching salary among regular full-time public school teachers, by sex and selected school characteristics: 2017–18

Selected school characteristics	All teachers		Female teachers		Male teachers
All public schools	$57,900		$57,500		$59,400
School classification
Traditional Public	58,400		58,000		59,800
Charter school	50,400		49,800		52,400
Community type
City	59,400		59,000		60,800
Suburban	62,800		62,300		64,400
Town	50,600		50,100		52,000
Rural	50,800		50,200		52,600
School level
Primary	57,000		56,800		59,000
Middle	58,900		58,900		59,000
High	60,400		60,100		60,900
Combined	51,100		50,500		52,600
Student enrollment
Less than 100	54,500		53,500		56,900
100–199	50,600		50,000		52,700
200–499	55,300		55,400		55,300
500–749	57,800		57,600		58,800
750–999	59,000		58,500		60,700
1,000 or more	61,500		61,100		62,300
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), "Public School Teacher Data File," 2017–18.

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