Starting Pay ≤ My Pay < Top Pay
DECEMBER 4, 2013 PM31 11:18 PM
That little inequality would be true in any district. But what would the numbers be?
I guess you should know that this is my 17th year. I have a Masters. And I’ve collected a bunch of additional credits, but no additional degrees. Probably if we added up the advanced credits, it would be around 30, but I padded that with some credit by examination a few years ago, so in NYC I am closer to 50. Not that those credits matter elsewhere. You should also know that I am on sabbatical this year, so I am not drawing full pay. But for this exercise, let’s pretend I am.
The list includes all the towns and cities in Westchester and Nassau that border NYC, and I’ve thrown in the NYC rates from September 1997, when I started, to boot.
| District | Starting Teacher | jd2718 | Top Teacher | (deg, years) |
| NYC 1997 | $28,749 | $28,749 | $60,000 | MA+30, 23 yrs |
| NYC 2013 | $45,530 | $85,426 | $100,049 | MA+30, 23 yrs |
| Yonkers 2010 | $57,772 | $118,709 | $131,016 | PhD, 30 yrs |
| Mt Vernon 2009 | $51,540 | $109,616 | $122,275 | PhD, 20 yrs |
| Pelham 2012 | $52,931 | $119,308 | $137,433 | PhD, 25 yrs |
| New Rochelle 2013 | $54,969 | $119,593 | $131,839 | MA+90 or PhD, 20 yrs |
| Great Neck 2013 | $56,829 | $119,270 | $136,856 | PhD, 25 yrs |