Teacher Salary Data

Did you know mid-career teacher salaries range between $68,000 and $114,000? Share the A Teacher’s Life by the Numbers infographic for your local area with students or faculty. This resource also includes slides with teacher salary data for your local area that can be used in GFO presentations.

Audience/setting: Prospective teachers (undergraduate, graduate, alum). Faculty and staff who may talk with students formally or informally about teaching as a profession.

Time: 1 – 5 minutes

Synopsis: The map includes three file types at each location:

1. An infographic called “A Teachers Life by the Numbers” in pdf format. This infographic contains teacher salary data for a 1^st year and a 15^th year teacher, sample housing that these teachers could purchase, and data on the average wages for all employees in that area.
2. An editable version of the infographic called “A Teachers Life by the Numbers” in pptx
3. A PowerPoint slide containing local teacher salary data. This slide is formatted to match the Busting Myths About the Teaching Profession or Teaching: The Best Kept Secret! presentations so that it can easily replace the existing slide in those presentations.

Click on a state below to see available data (for 2023-24 school year and previous)!

Click on a state to see available data (for 2023-24 school year and previous).

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You may request Teacher Salary Data from the GFO Research Team team.  Data mining salaries and creating an infographic takes about a half of a day of effort, we appreciate your patience. Priority is given to Registered Champions.

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Editable materials

Access the A Teacher’s Life by the Numbers infographic for your local area from the map below. Use it with students or faculty any time you are having a conversation about the teaching profession. Teacher salaries are similar to other careers you can get with the same degree. In fact, mid-career teacher salaries range between $60,000 – $100,000.  Prospective teachers like to see what teacher pay looks like in your area before they hear about other benefits and the opportunities at your university to explore teaching as a profession.

Use the teacher salary slide in the Busting Myths About the Teaching Profession or Teaching: The Best Kept Secret! presentations. You can also use this table to update the Handouts for Prospective Teachers or Faculty so that they contain local teacher salary data.

Implementation

• If interested, update the pptx version of the A Teacher’s Life by the Numbers infographic with your branding info and your program’s contact info. Also use the salary slide to help customize your other GFO resources.
  • Infographic Template
• The Teacher Salary Data slide is designed to match the salary data slide that comes with the Busting Myths About the Teaching Profession or Teaching: The Best Kept Secret! presentations to make it easy for you to update these presentations with local data.
  • Teacher Salary Data Slides Template
• The table in the Teacher Salary Data slide can also be used to customize the Teacher salary Compensation data handout with local data.
• Review how to credit GFO when modifying or using these resources.

Good to Know

• The A Teacher’s Life by the Numbers infographic is a quick and simple way to share very critical financial facts about the teaching profession with all students, prospective teachers as well as their peers’ whose opinions they value.
• Remember that these infographics and the salary slide only contain the base academic-year salary for teachers. Data reveals that about half of teachers engage in additional paid service opportunities at their schools such as serving as club sponsors, coaches, substitute teachers, etc.
• Details on how these data were collected, filtered, and organized may be found in this blog article by members of GFO’s Research Team.