Teacher salary spending per teacher, by South Dakota school district

Douglas School District 51-1 spent $61,738 on teacher salaries per full-time teacher in fiscal year 2022-23, the most of any South Dakota district with 500 or more students; the median across all 141 South Dakota districts with a figure, the smaller ones included, is $49,840. It is not the salary a teacher is paid: it is the teacher salaries a district reported spending, divided by the full-time teachers counted in a different federal file, without benefits, so it can differ widely from the average salary a district publishes; a district's salary schedule gives pay. For pay, the National Education Association put the average South Dakota teacher salary at $49,761 in 2021-22 (U.S. $66,397; NCES Digest table 211.60). It is compared within South Dakota only because states book salaries and count teachers differently.

NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, fiscal year 2022-23 · NCES Common Core of Data LEA staff 2022-23 · method

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Sources

Source: NCES Digest of Education Statistics, table 211.60 (National Education Association, Estimates of School Statistics) Estimated average annual salary of teachers, by state · 2021-22

Source: NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey District teacher salaries (Z35-Z38) and membership · FY 2022-23