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Teacher pay can vary greatly by district, California report says - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee

Teacher pay can vary greatly by district, California report says - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee:

"The amount of money a California teacher makes these days depends greatly on the school district that cuts the paycheck, according to a state report released this month.

And the gap between the high and low salaries is wide.

Teachers in the Mountain View-Los Altos Union School District are the state's best paid, making an average of $95,365. That's nearly double the amount paid to the state's lowest paid educators – $49,753 – in the Konocti Unified School District in Lake County, according to a Bee analysis of districts with more than 100 teachers"