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$65,090   The average public school teacher salary in the 2020-21 school year, the most recent year reported by the . The 2020-21 salary is actually $519 lower than the 2019-20 average salary when inflation is taken into account.

$83   How much average public school teacher pay has risen since the 1989-90 school year, when adjusted for inflation.

$1,278   How much less teachers made on average during the 2020-21 school year than a decade earlier.

$222   The difference in average pay between secondary and elementary school teachers. Secondary school teachers made $63,959 on average in the 2016-17 school year, the last year of data available for that level. Elementary teachers earned $63,737 that school year.

$54,000   The expected median salary for education majors with bachelor鈥檚 degrees by the time they reach age 59, according to . That number is lower than it is for all other majors. Education majors would need a graduate degree to achieve the median earnings of an average person with a bachelor鈥檚 degree, according to the study.

27   The number of years it takes on average for a teacher with a bachelor鈥檚 degree to make $75,000, according to a . It would take 24 years for a teacher with a master鈥檚 degree to reach $75,000.

22   The number of states that paid teachers an average of at least $60,000 in 2020-21, according to data from the . Democratic lawmakers have pointed to $60,000 as the ideal minimum salary for teachers in bills in both the House and the Senate.

0   The number of states where teachers earned a starting salary of at least $60,000 in 2020-21, according to an . Montana had the lowest starting salary that year, at $32,495, and Washington, D.C., had the highest, at $56,313.

$66,432   NEA鈥檚 projected 2021-22 average teacher salary, which would be a 1.8 percent increase over the association's estimated 2020-21 average of $65,293.

17   The number of governors who mentioned raising teacher pay in their 2023 state of the state speeches, , an organization that researches and tracks education policy.

$90,222   The average salary for teachers living in New York in 2020-21, according to the NEA. The salary is the highest average salary, followed by Massachusetts鈥�, with an $86,755 average salary in 2020-21.

$46,862   The average salary for teachers living in Mississippi in 2020-21, which is the lowest average salary for that year, according to the NEA. Mississippi lawmakers passed the state鈥檚 largest increase to starting salaries last year with a $5,140 bonus that would increase teachers鈥� starting salaries from $37,123 to $41,638, . The next lowest average salary is in South Dakota with $49,547.

$50,000-$60,000   The pay range that the majority of states fell into in 2020-21, according to the NEA. There were 27 states with average teacher salaries in this range that year.