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Teacher pay can vary greatly by district, California report says
- 02-01-2010
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By Diana Lambert and Phillip Reese/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. In the Sacramento region, however, teachers salaries aren't so disparate. Tahoe-Truckee Unified School District teachers are the highest paid locally, averaging $69,817 a year, while the lowest paid work in the River Delta Joint Unified School District, making $52,105. (more...)
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