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States with the highest average teacher salaries, 2016

May 23, 2017
The gap among states from the lowest average salary to the highest is more than $37,000 a year.

The average public school teacher salary in the United States for 2015-16 was $58,353, according to data from the National Education Association. That represents a 1.3 percent increase over the 2014 average salary of $57,611.

The range of average teacher salaries among individual states ranged from $79,152 in New York to $42,025 in South Dakota.

Here are the 10 states with the highest average teacher salary in 2015-16.

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