Annual salary
$46,745
Florida · salary schedule · 2024-25
Columbia County School Board salary schedule, 2024-25
Professional compensation, instructional personnel initial placement matrix (2024-25). The grid below is the schedule as published, every cell; pick a lane and initial placement matrix year to see the annual, monthly and per-day figure and the next five steps.
- Columbia County School Board's 2024-25 salary schedule starts at $46,745 (Annual contract amount, initial placement matrix year 0) and tops out at $60,995 (Annual contract amount, initial placement matrix year 25), per Columbia County School Board (effective ).
- The grid has 1 lane columns and 26 initial placement matrix year rows; the highest cell is reached at initial placement matrix year 25.
- Columbia enrolled 9,785 students in 2023-24, the 40th-largest district in Florida by NCES enrollment.
Professional compensation, instructional personnel initial placement matrix (2024-25)
| Initial placement matrix year \ Lane | Annual contract amount |
|---|---|
| 0 | $46,745 |
| 1 | $46,745 |
| 2 | $46,745 |
| 3 | $46,745 |
| 4 | $46,745 |
| 5 | $46,745 |
| 6 | $47,245 |
| 7 | $47,245 |
| 8 | $47,245 |
| 9 | $47,245 |
| 10 | $48,995 |
| 11 | $48,995 |
| 12 | $48,995 |
| 13 | $48,995 |
| 14 | $49,495 |
| 15 | $50,495 |
| 16 | $51,495 |
| 17 | $52,495 |
| 18 | $53,745 |
| 19 | $54,495 |
| 20 | $55,745 |
| 21 | $56,745 |
| 22 | $57,745 |
| 23 | $58,745 |
| 24 | $59,995 |
| 25 | $60,995 |
highest celllowest cell26 initial placement matrix year rows x 1 lane columnshover or tap a cell to trace its row and column
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Per month (12)
$3,895.42
Next 5 steps in this lane
| Initial placement matrix year | Salary | vs. selected |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $46,745 | +$0 |
| 2 | $46,745 | +$0 |
| 3 | $46,745 | +$0 |
| 4 | $46,745 | +$0 |
| 5 | $46,745 | +$0 |
Worked example as rendered: Annual contract amount, initial placement matrix year 0 = $46,745 a year, $3,895.42 a month spread over 12 months. Monthly and daily figures are arithmetic on the published annual cell, before any supplement, stipend or deduction.
Approved by the Columbia County School Board on 25 February 2025 for the 2024/25 fiscal year; it is the most recent instructional schedule the district publishes.
The sheet is a Skyward step ladder of 133 steps in $250 increments; only the initial placement matrix, which maps years 0 to 25 onto that ladder, is reproduced here.
- Soft spot: The PDF is a scan with no text layer, so the figures were read from the page image. Each one was checked against the school psychologist sheet in the same document, which runs exactly $4,525 above the instructional figure at every matrix year.
How this schedule moves
On the Annual contract amount column a teacher moves from $46,745 at initial placement matrix year 0 to $60,995 at initial placement matrix year 25: 25 initial placement matrix year increases worth $570 each on average, 30% in total.
The largest single increase on that column is $1,750, between initial placement matrix year 9 and initial placement matrix year 10.
11 of the 25 initial placement matrix year moves on that column carry no increase: the schedule prints the same figure for consecutive initial placement matrix years.
Among the 60 Florida district schedules indexed here, Columbia County School Board's starting pay ranks 50th and its top cell ranks 40th; the state medians are $49,002 to start and $67,332 at the top.
Across all 3,959 district grids indexed nationally, that starting figure sits at the 36th percentile and the top cell at the 9th percentile.
Against Florida districts of similar size
| District | Students | Year | Starting | Master's start | Top cell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia County School Board | 9,785 | 2024-25 | $46,745 | – | $60,995 |
| School Board of Sumter County | 9,598 | 2025-26 | $55,137 | – | $90,371 |
| Putnam County School District | 10,178 | 2025-26 | $51,470 | $54,187 | $69,541 |
| Monroe County School District | 8,908 | 2025-26 | $62,700 | – | $104,700 |
| Walton County School District | 11,779 | 2025-26 | $59,000 | – | $83,806 |
| Highlands County School Board | 12,175 | 2025-26 | $45,750 | – | $69,474 |
Starting pay is the first initial placement matrix year of the bachelor's column where the schedule has one, otherwise the lowest first-initial placement matrix year cell. Enrollment is NCES 2023-24. Years differ where districts publish on different cycles.
Questions people ask
What is the starting salary on the Columbia County School Board schedule?
$46,745 at initial placement matrix year 0 on Annual contract amount, per the 2024-25 schedule (Columbia County School Board).
What is the top of the Columbia County School Board salary schedule?
$60,995, at initial placement matrix year 25 on Annual contract amount (2024-25). 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 Columbia County School Board salary schedule?
On the Annual contract amount column the top figure, $60,995, is reached at initial placement matrix year 25, 25 initial placement matrix year increases after initial placement matrix year 0 (2024-25 schedule).
Other Florida districts with schedules
- School Board of Sumter Countystarts $55,137
- Putnam County School Districtstarts $51,470
- Monroe County School Districtstarts $62,700
- Walton County School Districtstarts $59,000
- Highlands County School Boardstarts $45,750
- School Board of Nassau Countystarts $51,657
- Hendry County School Districtstarts $50,900
- Jackson County School Boardstarts $45,000
- Flagler Schoolsstarts $49,451
- Suwannee County School Boardstarts $47,500
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