PHOENIX — Teacher salaries are rising in Arizona, but at least in Silicon Valley, they haven’t kept up with overall private sector salary growth.
According to a report released by the Arizona Comptroller General, the state’s district schools have 50,056 teachers serving more than 860,000 students. His average salary last school year was $58,366, a 21% increase over five years.
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The averages are not evenly distributed across all counties. In five of her 15 Arizona counties, teacher salaries are above the state average. The Graham County teacher has the highest average annual salary he averages at $60,571. Maricopa County’s teacher salary is slightly higher than the state as a whole, but in Pima County, another urban area in the state, the average teacher’s salary is $5,000 less than the state average. It is
In the Valley of the Sun, average teacher salaries have increased by about $10,000 since 2017, a 21% increase. The good news is that the county’s private sector salary growth is up 24% in his four years, according to Labor Department data. The average private sector job in the county was $52,377 in 2017 and rose to $64,977 by 2021, according to the latest available data.
ABC15 analyzed the largest school districts in Maricopa County, employing over 100 teachers. These districts have a total of 31,060 teachers, of whom one in five she is considered a newcomer with less than three years of work experience. The median salary for a teacher in a large school district was $58,876. Most teachers are expected to be in charge of 17 to her 18 students. Her average teaching experience is 10.8 years.
Teacher salaries were among the highest in some of the county’s largest high school districts. The Glendale Union High School District tops the list with an average salary of $71,507. This was followed by Tolleson Union HSD with $70,191 and Phoenix Union HSD with teacher incomes of about $69,911.
See the table below to see all average salaries for all school districts in Arizona.
