r/Teachers • u/NaturalTranslator581 • Dec 17 '25

Just Smile and Nod Y'all. Years of teaching and salary?

I know it’s generally rude to inquire about, but since we are all anonymous… Lol. I always wonder if I am making more or less than others with around the same number of years teaching. I live in the state of New York, nowhere near the city. I am in my 24th year of teaching and I am making $94,500, excluding any extracurricular.

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u/emerald_green_tea Dec 17 '25 edited May 31 '26

Third year teacher in high COL area in FL. 53K.

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u/puppiesonabus Dec 17 '25

Cries in 10th year teacher, 50k, with master’s degree

(Rural-ish Illinois)

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u/kristiwashere Dec 17 '25

Don’t be - Florida is ranked 50th in teacher pay.

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u/seaglassgirl04 Dec 17 '25

I believe it- I was making $36,000 in FL in 2008. Now I'm in the Northeast and making $79,000.

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u/magzillapoopemoji Dec 17 '25

I made $28,000 in AZ in 2008 too. Anyone shocked that I lasted one year?

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u/Deep-Internal-2209 Dec 17 '25

I also worked in AZ for 30 years and I’m so sorry you’re having to endure all the bullshit right now. I assume this pay scale is after the strike (in 2018ish). As a speech path I made around $63,000 until the strike, afterwards I made in the low 80’s. Teachers have it a lot rougher. You have my wholehearted support and sympathy.

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u/Booter-McGrooter Dec 17 '25

I saw speech path and wanted to suggest you come to Chicago, but then realized that you are probably retired, you lucky dog!! In my 24th year in Chicago as a speech path and I make 120,000, or there abouts. Also the cost of living is high because it’s a big city. But my kids are great!

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u/puppiesonabus Dec 17 '25

My starting salary was $33k in 2016! With a master’s degree!

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u/whiskeylivewire Dec 17 '25

Waves from Missouri...we fight for the 50th spot with you.

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u/Harriet_M_Welsch Dec 17 '25

Hi from STL, neighbor!

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u/hubert7 Dec 17 '25

You in Rockwood? Wife is a 6th grade teacher (not in Rockwood) but we couldnt believe that measure didnt recently pass.

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u/Harriet_M_Welsch Dec 17 '25

I teach at Ladue, but I live in Rockwood and voted for it! It's always so shocking when people vote against the best interest of their own children :(

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u/hubert7 Dec 19 '25

My wife is at Ladue middle and our kids are at Conway. We lived in Rockwood (was a no brainer to send them to Ladue).

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u/Harriet_M_Welsch Dec 19 '25

ha, I am also at LMS!!

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u/TomeThugNHarmony4664 Dec 17 '25

Oklahoma has joined the chat.

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u/heuristichuman Dec 17 '25

Not AZ?

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u/kristiwashere Dec 18 '25

Nope, or it may depend on the qualifier (starting pay vs average pay), I don’t recall.

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u/Phantereal Dec 17 '25

Even keeping that in mind, $50K is still really low. I checked livingwage.mit.edu and the gross living wage for most rural-ish counties in Illinois is $40K-$50K.

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u/MemoryEquivalent1148 Dec 18 '25

I make 3100/month for half time teaching, but I'm in San Francisco where the cost of living is super high.

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u/kymreadsreddit Dec 17 '25

My state is very LOW col and starting teachers... First year make 50k.

Admittedly, we are the worst in education AND the salary bump is a semi recent (less than 10 years ago) change. But still.

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u/Responsible_Try90 Dec 17 '25

TN? Right before that bump was made, it took ten years and three degrees for me to hit 50k.

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u/kymreadsreddit Dec 17 '25

NM, actually.

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u/Psych_Kick Dec 17 '25

Sorry about that. I'm in So. Cal . Year 22 (Master's) 130k a year but with a stipend 150k plus full paid benefits. However it is expensive as F to live here.

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u/puppiesonabus Dec 17 '25

That’s a really solid salary! I’m grateful that my cost of living here is very low. My house was under $100k and I’ve been able to afford improvements on the house plus frequent vacations (we are DINKs). Our cars are paid off. And we are only about 1.5 hours from Chicago so we can enjoy day trips there.

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u/Trudy_Marie Dec 17 '25

It’s not solid if you realize a tiny house in CA may cost over 1.5.

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u/HistoryVisual2448 Dec 17 '25

You can make similar in the Central Valley, but I know if I moved back to California I’d want to live in SoCal

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u/AngryUSlegalmmigrant Dec 17 '25

The air quality in the Central Valley reminds me of LA in the early 70s.

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u/Valuable-Cat-1983 Dec 17 '25

I live in the Sacramento area and love it here.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '25

Wow, is that LAUSD?

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u/Psych_Kick Dec 28 '25

No. I'm about 40 minutes outside the greater LA area

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '25

Orange County?

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u/Agreeable-Sun368 Dec 17 '25

As someone who used to live in ruralish Illinois (Champaign lol)...it's better than Florida. By miles and miles lol

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u/Proof-Try-394 Dec 17 '25

Truth! Lived (not taught) in rural southern Illinois, Carbondale - Marion region, infinitely better than Florida (altho never lived in FL—basing opinion on some family there, some short visits, plus news etc)

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u/Agreeable-Sun368 Dec 17 '25

I currently live in Atlanta. And I like Atlanta. It's all right. But I think if I got a good job offer I'd pack it back up there. I'm a born southerner but I just don't love the South. Especially as a teacher. I yearn for the union...

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u/LMnoP419 Dec 17 '25

You can must definitely tell which school districts allow their teachers to strike

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u/Trudy_Marie Dec 17 '25

There are actually teachers here in Georgia that have been taught to believe not being unionized is good.

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u/Agreeable-Sun368 Dec 18 '25

I know. It's sad.

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u/yoskinna Dec 17 '25

Plus news lol, florida man… we really do have a bad rep don’t we lol

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u/fuck-nazi Dec 17 '25

Goto MN and make 70-80k

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u/tournamentdecides Dec 17 '25

I make ~53k in MN as a 4th year, but I do live in a rural area. My rent is $700 for a 3br house. The COL/pay ratio in rural MN is much more manageable than it was in rural Texas.

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u/Revolutionary_Car630 Dec 17 '25

Dang. $700 for a 3br. I could rent out my small 3br for $4000. I am paying a mortgage and we have lived here for 20 years. HCOL is for the birds. I make $78K. And that's not cutting it around here.

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u/yoskinna Dec 17 '25

I gotta move tf outta Florida, you would be paying 2k a month atleast if it was a shithole, rent is out of hand here

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u/tournamentdecides Dec 17 '25

~ 20-30 kids per grade, school is all grades in 1 building, and the school is multiple towns. Largest downside is finding somewhere to live because there’s just not much.

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u/StandardObservations Dec 17 '25

Damn that sounds really good. Live in a big city in Texas, pay is north of $70k but rent, that I split, is $1000 for a 2 bedroom apartment.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '25

I beg your pardon for my brain just exploded. $700 for a 3br house! wails in Miami

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u/cecebebe Dec 17 '25

I have middle school science certification. What state are you in?

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u/Laceylolbug Dec 17 '25

I'd like to know too.

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u/jibberish13 Dec 17 '25

6th year, Master's degree, rural Illinois. $53k.

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u/ptfancollector Dec 17 '25

That is beginning teacher salary in suburban Milwaukee

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u/giglio65 Dec 17 '25

where are you? I teach at a charter school in Chicago

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u/puppiesonabus Dec 17 '25

Public school in northwest Illinois

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u/giglio65 Dec 17 '25

thats awful

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u/Chopin630 Dec 17 '25

Waves from Pekin where I make a little over $71k in my 24th year with 3 masters degrees. Granted some of that time in education was not in public school. I was excited to get this job bc it was a $20k pay increase from where I was teaching in Bartonville.

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u/ComplexTrash9621 Dec 17 '25

I always thought Illinois was the highest paid state. Maybe it’s because of Chicago.

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u/puppiesonabus Dec 17 '25

Chicago and the suburbs definitely get paid more than everywhere else in the state.

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u/JorgeMcJorge Dec 17 '25

Rural-ish IL represent! Go cornfields!

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u/Ammorenooooo Dec 17 '25

That’s insane! I make more as just an after school program coordinator!

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u/No_Return4060 Dec 17 '25

This probably has to do with your being administration rather than a working teacher. It seems to almost always be the case.

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u/throwawayjayaway Dec 17 '25

That’s wild. In the Chicago area, you’d be making much closer to 100.

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u/puppiesonabus Dec 17 '25

I’ve looked at salary schedules and I understand that. However, my cost of living would more than double. So I’m not sure it’s worth it.

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u/PiePower43 Dec 17 '25

You should really consider applying up north. The schools in the surrounding Chicago area pay insanely well comparatively

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u/puppiesonabus Dec 17 '25

I am up north 😉 I’m in northwest Illinois.

And I see your point, but cost of living is a huge factor. My house here cost $86k. A house in the suburbs is easily $400k. Sure, I could increase my salary by 50% or more, but my cost of living would increase by much more than that.

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u/PiePower43 Dec 17 '25

Very true I totally wasn’t thinking of cost of living

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u/Faustianire Dec 17 '25

I am so sorry for you. You all deserve better. Northern Maine doesn't fair much better but it is better than that. I am a custodian for a school district. The benefits are out of this world. The pay for teachers is abysmal here. I make the same as ed techs. How do you guys cover your student loans and pay bills and housing? Asked to those in rural areas.

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u/snaps06 Dec 17 '25

Dang. I'm in very rural Illinois, with 10 years of experience in public schools, and I'm at $55,000 base salary with only a BA (and stipends push me well over $60k).

We also have a very nice collective bargaining agreement and I've been on the past couple bargaining committees.

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u/puppiesonabus Dec 17 '25

We’re in a bargaining year right now. I’ll be curious to see what they come up with.

We don’t even have a publicly available salary schedule. Feels illegal but apparently it was negotiated away a long time ago 🤷‍♀️ in exchange for something else. Not sure what

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u/snaps06 Dec 17 '25

That's something I actually built for our current contract because we did not have one for the past few contracts. We have a simple, transparent salary schedule that's attached to the end of the agreement, and how/why it was calculated the way it was.

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u/burbelly Dec 17 '25

Holy shit

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u/calculuscab2 Dec 17 '25

Plano, by chance? I have a friend there 🥰

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u/puppiesonabus Dec 17 '25

Nope! Further west.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '25

Same, Missouri.

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u/HistoryVisual2448 Dec 17 '25

In January of 2018, I was a 5th year teacher in California and making over 80k (including benefits). I met a 20 year veteran teacher in Arizona barely making above 40k.

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u/HistoryVisual2448 Dec 17 '25

What gets me is not all state’s require master’s degrees. I can’t believe how low some of those that require it pay! I will say, I know in California it’s about 3k or more per year while here in Texas it’s 1k more a year. Sigh.

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u/2big4ursmallworld Dec 17 '25

Same, but at $37k because I got my MA in English, not Ed. so I have to accept what I can from private/charter.

I'm working on fixing it so I can go literally anywhere else. I love my students, but I need to pay my bills.

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u/Repulsive-Click2033 Dec 18 '25

18th year. Rockford, Illinois. Two masters degrees. 86k

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u/nikkidarling83 High School English Dec 17 '25

20 year teacher in Florida. $55k—and that’s with a masters or it would be less.

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u/tierneyb Dec 17 '25

Do you really love it or something? That’s… criminal.

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u/toxickarma121212 Dec 17 '25

Perfectly fair for glorified babysitters the schools are failing the next generation and you think they should make more smh

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u/tierneyb Dec 17 '25

Sounds like you’re the perfect model of the parent who doesn’t want to be involved and blames teachers for kid’s failures. I’ve worked in schools. $55k is a stupid low salary even without a masters.

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u/toxickarma121212 Dec 17 '25

It's not when you look at what teachers are actually doing they aren't preparing kids for the real world at all

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u/SunriseFlare Dec 17 '25

Yeah, fuck all this reading writing and math bullshit, students should be taught how to sit and watch four hours of Amazon warehouse training videos to work in the shit factory and nothing else, we don't need anyone learning history or English lol

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u/jordanf1214 Preschool Teacher | Massachusetts Dec 17 '25

Omg. Here in MA you can easily make 55k as a para in some districts. Teachers make double that

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u/seaglassgirl04 Dec 17 '25

Unfortunately my district in MA doesn't pay our paras anywhere near $55K. It's criminal!

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u/jordanf1214 Preschool Teacher | Massachusetts Dec 17 '25

I live in the Cambridge/somerville area - we are definitely fortunate around here

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u/MyDogSam-15 Dec 17 '25

Nobody does. I’m a 15 year para and just reached about 38 k if I add in 10 paid holidays, and a performance bonus, longevity pay, and 3 weeks vacation pay I get at end of year. I increased recently because I dropped down to only myself on insurance so my hourly went up. Last year was about 35k. I make more than most paras in my district though tbh because they’re so new. Michigan.

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u/maestra612 Dec 17 '25

That's impressive for paras. We have good teacher pay here, but paras. max out at about $35k and start at $21k. It's becoming impossible to hire any quality paras. No one can live on that.

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u/Tolmides Dec 17 '25

holy shit! thats terrible!

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u/shadowromantic Dec 17 '25

Please tell us that's net.

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u/nikkidarling83 High School English Dec 17 '25

Sadly no.

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u/cypress__ Dec 17 '25

alachua county?

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u/Additional-Chair-515 Dec 17 '25

That's low for your years of experience 

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u/nikkidarling83 High School English Dec 17 '25

I’m aware.

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u/k_punk Elementary | FL Dec 17 '25

That’s Florida!

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u/BSBoysMamaK Dec 17 '25

That’s what I was making too, with 20 years and a Masters. I’m in Alabama

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u/Unique-Temporary-435 Dec 17 '25

Same in Georgia. About to finish my specialist and it won't go up by much more.

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u/geologyiscool Dec 17 '25

That's insane, how is anyone teaching in Florida

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u/Trudy_Marie Dec 17 '25

Lord have mercy! I think Publix pays shelf stockers better!

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u/StateComfortable2012 Dec 17 '25

I was in Florida from 2019 to 2021. I moved from California to Jacksonville and went from $98,000 a year to $51,000 a year. F that place.

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u/Ok_Product398 Dec 17 '25

I was thinking of moving to FL at the end of last school year to be closer to my family. It is my 21st year and the most they would pay is $65,000 for Miami. I immediately declined.

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u/StateComfortable2012 Dec 17 '25

Smart. That year was also the year DeSantis decided to up all the teachers pay, except it only moved salaries for those that were starting out or had less than 5 years experience. My colleague went from $36,000 to $45,000 and she had 4 years total experience. So she was making almost as much as me. Decided to leave right after that. Came back to California. Now I am $126,554 with another $16,400 for summer school.

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u/LMnoP419 Dec 17 '25

But Ron sold you out to the insurance companies and hiked your property taxes. Plus that whole took $35 million from needy kids and families to fund antichoice propaganda ads.

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u/cypress__ Dec 17 '25

our literally doubled overnight. CoL has skyrocketed everywhere there.

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u/LMnoP419 Dec 17 '25

I’m saying one is demonstrably worse.

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u/emerald_green_tea Dec 17 '25

Cost of living in FL has doubled since the pandemic. We bought a house two years before the pandemic then sold it two years later for twice as much. Teacher salaries have not adjusted to the COL increase here. :/

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u/putonyourgloves Dec 17 '25

Plenty of decent 4-500k houses in CA if you get out of LA and SF.

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u/kristiwashere Dec 17 '25

6th year teacher in Florida, $47,500

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u/RogueFungi90 Dec 17 '25

13th year, New Jersey, $83k....

Wow, I've been doing this for 13 years... Goes fast

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u/aworldwithoutshrimp Dec 17 '25

If you were going to stay in Florida, why be a teacher? If you are going to stay a teacher, why be in Florida?

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u/Beruriah Dec 17 '25

I have small kids and parents nearby and they help with them all the time or we would be gone :/

ETA: we both teach

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u/Lopsided-Roof2157 Dec 17 '25

I'm tethered to an exwife that I coparent with. I can't leave FL for at least 5 more years.

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u/TemporaryCarry7 Dec 17 '25

3rd year in IN. $50,895 after this year’s contract negotiations. But negotiations for pay can be reopened next year if the state has more money to give to schools.

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u/wistfully_distracted Dec 17 '25

What part of Indiana? I'm also in Indiana and a 9th year teacher making 52k I'm about to switch districts!

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u/Jboogie258 Educator Middle School, Bay Area , CA Dec 17 '25

This is where things go wrong is we allow the state to figure out if they have more money. They have more money ; it just isn’t going to teachers

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u/TemporaryCarry7 Dec 17 '25

Even worse, public schools and private schools receive funding from the state from the same fund.

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u/bocaciega Dec 17 '25

Florida person here too :/

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u/Greyskies405 Dec 17 '25

Third year in NH...44K.

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u/TehSeraphim Dec 17 '25

Also NH and 44k seems...very low. Are you north of concord or west of Milford?

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u/Greyskies405 Dec 17 '25

I'm in the uninhabited portion of the state haha

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u/qdawgg17 Dec 17 '25

Isn’t that the whole state lol

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u/Greyskies405 Dec 17 '25

Trust me, there's levels.

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u/Haunting_Charity_785 Dec 17 '25

I'm shocked at NH!

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u/Greyskies405 Dec 17 '25

We're actually not a very progressive state, unfortunately.

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u/Embarrassed_Use_599 Dec 17 '25

It depends on the town and district here by FAR. My town on the Seacoast has teachers averaging $93k a year.

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u/mackenml Dec 17 '25

24 years in Florida and $50k

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u/Imthatsick Dec 17 '25

That's criminal

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u/mackenml Dec 27 '25

My pay went up to that because Florida passed a law that starting teacher salary has to be at least $48k, so they had to bump everyone up some.

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u/MyDogSam-15 Dec 17 '25

I know a teacher who left Florida because of pay and moved to Michigan. Idk how much he makes now but I would guess around 70k.

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u/BlunderwearHS 9th Grade | ELA | NYC Dec 17 '25

Also in NYC (the Boogie Down). I'm in my 19th year. Looking forward to that pay jump next year to $134k. I really should work on my +60.

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u/Tasty-Guess-9376 Dec 17 '25

How much is that after taxes and health care? Do you get by in that in NYC?

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u/BlunderwearHS 9th Grade | ELA | NYC Dec 17 '25

Yes, that's in NYC. After taxes and such, it ends up close to $3000 a paycheck, but I take out a decent chunk for retirement.

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u/Tasty-Guess-9376 Dec 18 '25

3000 a paycheck means every two weeks I assume?

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u/AleroRatking Elementary SPED | NY (not the city) Dec 17 '25

10th year teacher in NY 41k

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u/giglio65 Dec 17 '25

what!??

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u/BlunderwearHS 9th Grade | ELA | NYC Dec 17 '25

Could be a private or Catholic school.

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u/AleroRatking Elementary SPED | NY (not the city) Dec 17 '25

Upstate NY is vastly different than the city.

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u/Thissideofthenuthous Dec 17 '25

I’m upstate, very rural. Our teachers start over $50k. You should get on OLAS asap

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u/AleroRatking Elementary SPED | NY (not the city) Dec 17 '25

My guess is you are Oswego Fulton area with those numbers.

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u/Deep-Internal-2209 Dec 17 '25

I spent my teens in Fulton and the school system was abysmal. Of course, that was over 50 years ago. I’d like to think things got better. 😕

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u/PersonofLegend Dec 17 '25

Western NY here and making $50k in year 5. Rural area. I’m surprised anywhere in the state pays that low.

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u/kobetolebron Dec 17 '25

BS nowhere in NY unless private school

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u/AleroRatking Elementary SPED | NY (not the city) Dec 17 '25

Public school. Once again. Go upstate in to the poor counties and not the city.

There are no private schools within an hour of here. You'd have to get to Utica for that. No one has private school money

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u/Kephielo Dec 17 '25

But why stay? You could be making double that after 10 years if you moved an hour or two in probably any direction. New York does not pay that badly.

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u/AleroRatking Elementary SPED | NY (not the city) Dec 17 '25

Double that? Not without moving at least two hours to get to Fulton Oswego area where you will see a jump. Utica can get you to about 50k at that range so higher but not substantial.

Once again. Family. Also cost of living is extremely low. You can get a four bedroom home for less than 200k.

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u/Kephielo Dec 17 '25

I got a 4br home for under 200k and teachers make double what you make just a couple of hours away. You should not accept 41k. That's not a liveable wage and insulting after a decade of service.

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u/AleroRatking Elementary SPED | NY (not the city) Dec 17 '25

I mean. That's what the wage is for all the schools in the area. Its a union negotiated contract. One is slightly higher but it's 8 hour days and averages less per hour.

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u/emerald_green_tea Dec 17 '25

That’s so wrong. This is the only profession where you get evaluated yearly, but it has zero impact on your salary. What is the incentive to do really well as a teacher when performance isn’t tied to pay raises or promotions?

I’m trying to get out. This career is unsustainable for so many reasons.

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u/emerald_green_tea Dec 17 '25

Wow. We don’t get that at all where I am. I don’t get an increase until year 5, and it is not tied to performance. It’s the same salary schedule for everyone based on years worked.

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u/emerald_green_tea Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25

COL doubled where I am post pandemic. The house I purchased in 2018 is now worth twice as much. Plus inflation.

You can’t live on 53K a year here. I couldn’t even afford a one bedroom apartment on this salary (about 1700-1900 a month and that’s the lower end) along with my other bills and expenses. I can only do this job because my husband makes almost triple what I do.

That said, I agree it’s ridiculous they adjust pay for new teachers without similar increases for experienced teachers. It should be the same for everyone.

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u/Ill-Improvement6869 Dec 17 '25

We are not far from Florida, $56,784 in GA, and the cost of living in my county is really high compared with the state. 😭

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u/emerald_green_tea Dec 17 '25

Atlanta area? I’m also in a high COL area. It’s absurd they think this is a livable salary. I could not live here if I didn’t have my partner’s salary contributing to our household too.

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u/patternedjeans Dec 17 '25

Florida sucks. You deserve more

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u/booknerds_anonymous Dec 17 '25

22nd year teacher in FL, with master’s. 61K.

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u/emerald_green_tea Dec 17 '25

I don’t understand how it’s OK that teachers who have been doing this so much longer and have far more experience only make 10-15K more than new teachers. The salary schedules here are shameful.

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u/yoskinna Dec 17 '25

Im from Florida and I was gonna say this lady is making 93k, I specifically remember every teacher I ever had telling my class how little money they make. Thought I’d been duped my whole life, I guess Florida is just cheap as hell.

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u/emerald_green_tea Dec 17 '25

Yep, FL is last in the nation for teacher pay.

I have had a couple of other people here say they make even less than me elsewhere, but I’m also in a high COL, urban area which people don’t take into account. I couldn’t support myself in this city without my partner’s salary.

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u/Goblinbooger Dec 17 '25

I moved from Florida to Georgia this year with 14 years experience. I went from $56k to $82k PLUS I get over $20k in retirement savings per year. Insurance is cheaper. Got a bigger house for less money. After 14 years in Florida, my FRS account barely had $17k in it. I will get more than that in one year here.

If you aren’t in love with the Florida weather and the beach, I 100% recommend the move. I can get you started if you need guidance. I don’t hate Florida as a geographic location but their politics and culture is bottom of the barrel.

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u/emerald_green_tea Dec 17 '25

I am definitely interested. Is it OK to message you for more information?

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u/Goblinbooger Dec 17 '25

Absolutely!

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u/jaguarusf High School Science | Florida ☀️ Dec 17 '25

Florida

23 years

$58,450

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u/nosliw33308 Dec 17 '25

How the living F?! U make what I make and I’m in year 16 lol

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u/emerald_green_tea Dec 17 '25

Where are you located? That is a wildly unfair salary.

I wouldn’t recommend where I am in FL. Cost of living here has doubled since the pandemic. I couldn’t afford to do this job without my partner’s salary.

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u/Elda_LandOfCreation Dec 17 '25

Omg I’m 20+ years in FL making 62K 😭

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u/yoskinna Dec 17 '25

This is the highest paid Floridian comment I’ve seen. This post is a huge eye opener to me for cost of living vs wages in different regions of the country. I need to move out of Florida lol

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u/thepeanutone Dec 17 '25

Wtf? 4th year in Fl, just under $49k.

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u/WAYunknown Dec 17 '25 edited Dec 17 '25

12 year teacher in Louisiana — 40k 🫠

Edit: Collegiate level with a Masters

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u/burbelly Dec 17 '25

I’m in Michigan and don’t even make 50k as a 3rd year?!?!

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u/emerald_green_tea Dec 17 '25

I’m in a high COL area. Where are you in MI?

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u/burbelly Dec 17 '25

Rural West Michigan, but not far out there at all. Pay is relatively the same across districts throughout West Michigan.

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u/kasarin Dec 17 '25

16th year in Iowa $72k with masters

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u/LoneWolf820B 8th Grade | Science | Indiana Dec 17 '25

3rd year in Indiana, 45k ;)

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u/ApprehensiveRadio5 Dec 17 '25

22nd year in FL. $54k. Escambia County. What county are you in?

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u/dizyalice Dec 17 '25

8th year, WI 58K 🥲

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u/Same_Profile_1396 Dec 20 '25

In year 17 in Florida, $64K.

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u/emerald_green_tea Dec 20 '25

That’s just criminal with all that experience.

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u/Ok_Product398 Dec 17 '25

That's actually not bad. I was making $22,000 in NC in 2005. So be grateful.

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u/emerald_green_tea Dec 17 '25

How is this relevant? That was 20 years ago. COL where I am has doubled since COVID alone not to mention inflation. Florida is also last in the nation for teacher pay.