Teacher salaries by state and school district
What public school teachers earn, district by district: the full salary schedule, with what it pays at the start, on average and at the top. California is on the site now; more states follow as we collect their data.
- GeorgiaIn preparation
- PennsylvaniaIn preparation
- IllinoisIn preparation
Work in progress
Teacher pay in more states, as we collect the data
This page will compare teacher pay across states. For now California is the only state with data on the site. Each state publishes its teacher pay records differently, so we add states one at a time, after checking their files. Georgia, Pennsylvania and Illinois are next.
Until then, the California pages have everything we've published so far: every reporting district, compared statewide and by county.
Source for the California figure
Salaries are the annual amounts on each district's certificated salary schedule, averaged over full-time equivalents.
- California Department of Education, Selected Certificated Salaries and Related Statistics, 2024-25, Table I: statewide average salary paid.