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It's $66,745, ranging from $47k in Mississippi to $91k in New York:

https://www.nea.org/resource-library/educator-pay-and-studen...

The US median income for individuals is $54k, so your average teacher actually makes a decent income.

Basing this off the median salary doesn’t mean it’s good. I know what median means, before you ask, but the cost of everything has grown so disproportionate to the median wage that this 54k is closer to poverty than it is a self-supporting wage near a major city.

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