Teachers are essential to a successful society. A well-educated population benefits an entire country, yet in the U.S. not all teachers are treated the same. Salaries can vary greatly on a state-by-state basis. You’ll often find that states with a teacher shortage also offer the lowest pay.

The team at PlaygroundEquipment.com created a map of teaching salaries in 2019 but since 2020, the public school landscape has changed a lot so they decided it was time for an update. We can see the results on the map they created which identifies states and cities that pay teachers the most and the least.

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U.S. Cities With the Highest and Lowest Paid Elementary School Teachers

Irma Wallace

Irma Wallace

Co-founder and Vice President of SearchRank, responsible for many of the day to day operations of the company. She is also founder of The Arizona Builders’ Zone, a construction / home improvement portal.

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