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Kern High salary schedule, 2025-26

Certificated base salary schedule, 10-month (2025-26). The grid below is the schedule as published, every cell; pick a class and step to see the annual, monthly and per-day figure and the next five steps.

Kern High's 2025-26 salary schedule starts at $64,147 (Class I Without Masters, step 1) and tops out at $137,529 (Class VI With Masters, step 17), per Kern High School District (effective July 1, 2025).
On the master's column (Class I Without Masters) the range is $64,147 to $85,760.
The schedule is built on 183 work days, which makes the starting cell about $350.53 per day.
The grid has 12 class columns and 17 step rows; the highest cell is reached at step 17.
Kern High enrolled 43,116 students in 2023-24, the 10th-largest district in California by NCES enrollment.

Certificated base salary schedule, 10-month (2025-26)

Transcribed from imageDocumentKern High School DistrictSchool year2025-26EffectiveJuly 1, 2025Work days183

Step \ Class	Class I Without Masters	Class I With Masters	Class II Without Masters	Class II With Masters	Class III Without Masters	Class III With Masters	Class IV Without Masters	Class IV With Masters	Class V Without Masters	Class V With Masters	Class VI Without Masters	Class VI With Masters
1	$64,147	$64,147	$64,147	$64,875	$64,875	$68,844	$68,844	$72,815	$72,815	$76,781	$76,781	$80,750
2	$64,147	$64,147	$64,147	$67,455	$67,455	$71,426	$71,426	$75,391	$75,391	$79,359	$79,359	$83,328
3	$64,147	$64,147	$66,068	$70,035	$70,035	$74,002	$74,002	$77,971	$77,971	$81,942	$81,942	$85,908
4	$64,147	$66,514	$68,646	$72,615	$72,615	$76,583	$76,583	$80,551	$80,551	$84,518	$84,518	$88,485
5	$65,124	$69,095	$71,226	$75,194	$75,194	$79,164	$79,164	$83,129	$83,129	$87,096	$87,096	$91,068
6	$67,705	$71,673	$73,806	$77,773	$77,773	$81,740	$81,740	$85,712	$85,712	$89,678	$89,678	$93,646
7	$70,285	$74,251	$76,383	$80,356	$80,356	$84,321	$84,321	$88,289	$88,289	$92,259	$92,259	$96,225
8	$72,862	$76,830	$78,965	$82,930	$82,930	$86,902	$86,902	$90,867	$90,867	$94,837	$94,837	$98,806
9	$75,442	$79,412	$81,542	$85,512	$85,512	$89,480	$89,480	$93,449	$93,449	$97,415	$97,415	$101,383
10	$78,022	$81,989	$84,122	$88,093	$88,093	$92,059	$92,059	$96,026	$96,026	$99,997	$99,997	$103,962
11	$80,601	$84,568	$86,703	$90,670	$90,670	$94,638	$94,638	$98,606	$98,606	$102,574	$102,574	$106,543
12	$83,181	$87,148	$89,283	$93,249	$93,249	$97,217	$97,217	$101,187	$101,187	$105,153	$105,153	$109,123
13	$85,760	$89,726	$91,861	$95,828	$95,830	$99,797	$99,797	$103,764	$103,764	$107,734	$107,734	$111,703
14											$110,313	$114,281
15											$112,892	$116,858
16											$120,629	$124,598
17											$127,305	$137,529

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Class

Step

Annual salary

$64,147

Per month (12)

$5,345.58

Per work day

$350.53 / 183 days

Next 5 steps in this class

Step	Salary	vs. selected
2	$64,147	+$0
3	$64,147	+$0
4	$64,147	+$0
5	$65,124	+$977
6	$67,705	+$3,558

Worked example as rendered: Class I Without Masters, step 1 = $64,147 a year, $5,345.58 a month spread over 12 months, $350.53 per work day on a 183-day year. Monthly and daily figures are arithmetic on the published annual cell, before any supplement, stipend or deduction.

Appendix A-3 of the 2025-2027 KHSD-KHSTA Collective Bargaining Agreement: 'Certificated Base Salary Schedule 1008, Certificated 10-month, 2025-2026', effective July 1, 2025, reflects 2% salary increase. New teacher minimum printed as 64,148.

183 contract days for classroom teachers (Article on Work Year).

Steps 14-17 exist only in Class VI and are available only after 17, 22, 27 and 32 years of qualified educational service.

Doctorate $3,971 not included. 11-month (1081) and 12-month (1082) schedules for longer work years are separate appendices and not included.

Soft spot: The agreement raises all certificated schedules 2% effective July 1, 2026, but the posted agreement prints only the 2025-26 grid; no 2026-27 grid was found on the district site, so this record stays at 2025-26 rather than extrapolating.
Soft spot: Scanned, rotated page: read visually at 300 dpi and cross-checked with tesseract; cells also match the 2024-25 CDE J-90 values x 1.02.
Soft spot: Class III Without Masters step 13 is printed 95,830 while Class II With Masters step 13 is 95,828 (elsewhere the two lanes are equal); kept as printed.

How this schedule moves

On the Class I Without Masters column a teacher moves from $64,147 at step 1 to $85,760 at step 13: 12 step increases worth $1,801 each on average, 34% in total.

The largest single increase on that column is $2,581, between step 5 and step 6.

3 of the 12 step moves on that column carry no increase: the schedule prints the same figure for consecutive steps.

The highest-paid column, Class VI With Masters, starts at $80,750 and tops out at $137,529, 60% above the top of the Class I Without Masters column.

Among the 825 California district schedules indexed here, Kern High's starting pay ranks 246th and its top cell ranks 126th; the state medians are $59,726 to start and $120,047 at the top.

Across all 3,959 district grids indexed nationally, that starting figure sits at the 89th percentile and the top cell at the 94th percentile.

Column by column

Class	First step	Top	Step moves to top	Growth
Class I Without Masters	$64,147	$85,760	12	34%
Class I With Masters	$64,147	$89,726	12	40%
Class II Without Masters	$64,147	$91,861	12	43%
Class II With Masters	$64,875	$95,828	12	48%
Class III Without Masters	$64,875	$95,830	12	48%
Class III With Masters	$68,844	$99,797	12	45%
Class IV Without Masters	$68,844	$99,797	12	45%
Class IV With Masters	$72,815	$103,764	12	43%
Class V Without Masters	$72,815	$103,764	12	43%
Class V With Masters	$76,781	$107,734	12	40%
Class VI Without Masters	$76,781	$127,305	16	66%
Class VI With Masters	$80,750	$137,529	16	70%

Against California districts of similar size

District	Students	Year	Starting	Master's start	Top cell
Kern High	43,116	2025-26	$64,147	$64,147	$137,529
Clovis Unified	43,291	2026-27	$61,487	–	$127,049
San Bernardino City Unified	44,712	2024-25	$67,927	–	$136,734
Capistrano Unified	40,836	2025-26	$66,197	–	$132,594
Riverside Unified	38,855	2026-27	$74,796	–	$144,274
San Juan Unified	38,488	2025-26	$60,000	–	$126,000

Starting pay is the first step of the bachelor's column where the schedule has one, otherwise the lowest first-step cell. Enrollment is NCES 2023-24. Years differ where districts publish on different cycles.

Questions people ask

What is the starting salary on the Kern High schedule?

$64,147 at step 1 on Class I Without Masters, per the 2025-26 schedule (Kern High School District).

What is the top of the Kern High salary schedule?

$137,529, at step 17 on Class VI With Masters (2025-26). That is the highest published cell before any stipend, longevity or supplement not printed on the grid.

How long does it take to reach the top of the Kern High salary schedule?

On the Class I Without Masters column the top figure, $85,760, is reached at step 13, 12 step increases after step 1 (2025-26 schedule).

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