Share of U.S. elementary school teachers 2007/08, by base salary and school type

This statistic shows the distribution of full-time teachers in public and private elementary schools in the United States, according to their base salary as of the 2007/08 academic year. At this time 13.4 percent of teachers at private elementary schools in the U.S. earned between 45,000 and 59,999 U.S. dollars. The statistic shows that on average teachers at private schools tended to earn much less than their public school colleagues.