The average salary of Texas public school teachers has stayed virtually unchanged over the last decade when adjusted for inflation, while the average pay for new teachers decreased slightly, according to a new study.
Kindergarten dual language teacher Yanelli Lopez works with her students at Vines Primary School in Aldine ISD Thursday, July 22, 2021. The average salary of Texas public school teachers has stayed virtually unchanged over the last decade when adjusted for inflation.
Extending the analysis to last school year — the first to be entirely affected by the pandemic — showed teachers across the state experienced an average decrease in pay of 4 percent, according to the report. In some districts, teachers saw significant decreases when inflation was taken into account. For example, a teachers at the Houston Independent School District made an average of about $65,000 a year during the 2009-10 academic year in 2021 dollars.
An exception to the wage stagnation, the authors said, were districts’ central administration staffers, who — when adjusted for inflation — saw an increase from an average of $103,790 to $108,367 in yearly pay.
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