Boston Teachers' Salaries Top Local List
WBUR created a map showing how average teacher salaries compare across Massachusetts.
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WBUR created a map showing how average teacher salaries compare across Massachusetts, and Boston Public Schools' average K-12 teacher salary is higher than the state average.
The most recent numbers from the 2009-2010 school year put Boston at the top of the pack.
On the map, the darker the city or town, the higher the average salary. The map can be viewed for elementary teacher salaries (red), middle school salaries (green) and high school salaries (blue).
Below is a chart using the most recent numbers, from the 2009-2010 school year and on the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education website, showing the average teacher salary by community in ascending order along with the municipality's expenditure per pupil from the '08-'09 school year, taken from WBUR's map.
| City/Town | Average Salary | Expenditure Per Pupil |
| Stoneham | $60,168 | $11,400 |
| Reading | $60,300 | $10,742 |
| Arlington | $61,757 | $11,813 |
| Melrose | $62,225 | $10,288 |
| Saugus | $62,266 | $11,079 |
| Wilmington | $63,209 | $11,436 |
| North Reading | $63,262 | $10,888 |
| Wakefield | $64,041 | $11,299 |
| Woburn | $65,282 | $13,909 |
| Somerville | $67,772 | $16,219 |
| Winchester | $68,908 | $11,373 |
| Medford | $68,929 | $13,269 |
| Lynnfield | $72,682 | $10,600 |
| Malden | $73,203 | $12,798 |
| Cambridge | $77,380 | $26,337 |
| Boston | $84,894 |
$17,900 |
Plenty O'Toole
10:24 am on Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Another year of overpaid, underperforming inepts turning out an inferior product.
Seamus O'Sullivan
10:39 am on Wednesday, June 6, 2012
That's a sweeping generalization if I've ever heard one, TMT. While I'd agree that certain members of the older generation of teachers are probably underperforming relative to today's standards, the bar to become a teacher in Massachusetts over the past 10 years has been set exceptionally high. I have friends that are public school teachers with probably more impressive pedigrees than you.
M Donahue
12:09 pm on Wednesday, June 6, 2012
I couldn't agree more with Seamus and in fact, think that most of these public school teachers are actually underpaid.