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Summary: An elementary school teacher's salary ranges from $35,000 to $70,000 per year, depending on education level and experience. Find out a teacher's salary with tips from a third grade teacher in this free video on careers.
Erin FitzPatrick is a third grade teacher at Glenn Elementary Enhanced Option School, located in Nashville, Tennessee.read more
"Jason, can you identify a paragraph that used descriptive writing? Can you look through this book and see if you can find something that uses descriptive writing for us? Teacher pay is varied by the level of education, and their year's of experience. Here in Nashville, I think the base pay starts at $35 to $36,000 with a bachelors, and runs all the way up into the fifties and sixties. In Houston, the base pay for a first year teacher with a college degree is $46,000, and it runs into the seventies. But it's different throughout the nation. The starting salary for a teacher is on average between $35,000 and $45,000. From what I've seen right now, it's capping in the $50 to $70,000 range, depending on the district you're in. It's dependent on how many years experience you have, sometimes in district as well as in education altogether. And it also depends on your level of education. It's going to grow as long as they keep having children."
eHow Article: Elementary School Teacher Salary