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- The Bureau of Labor Statistics provides data on wages and employment in local-government-owned public elementary and high schools.
- Public schools employ a wide variety of workers, and salaries range from well below the median wage to very high-paying.
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Public schools employ a wide variety of workers, and salaries range from well below the median wage to very high-paying.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment Statistics program offers data on employment and wages across different occupations and industries.
According to that report, there were about 7.6 million Americans employed by public schools owned by local governments in May 2018, the most recent year for which data is available.
Public school jobs tend to be higher-paying than average. The median annual wage across all occupations in the sector was $47,120, well above the overall median wage of $38,640.
Here are all the occupations with at least 25,000 employees in the local-government-owned school sector ranked from lowest to highest wage, along with their median annual pay and the number of people in that job: