Annual salary
$49,591
Florida · salary schedule · 2025-26
Lafayette County School Board salary schedule, 2025-26
Instructional salary schedule (2025-26). The grid below is the schedule as published, every cell; pick a lane and years of experience to see the annual, monthly and per-day figure and the next five steps.
- Lafayette County School Board's 2025-26 salary schedule starts at $49,591 (Bachelor degree / base, years of experience 0-2) and tops out at $58,534 (Bachelor degree / base, years of experience 25), per Lafayette County School Board (effective ).
- A teacher on the bachelor's column (Bachelor degree / base) starts at $49,591 and reaches $58,534 at the top of that column.
- The grid has 1 lane columns and 24 years of experience rows; the highest cell is reached at years of experience 25.
- Lafayette enrolled 1,133 students in 2023-24, the 66th-largest district in Florida by NCES enrollment.
Instructional salary schedule (2025-26)
| Years of experience \ Lane | Bachelor degree / base |
|---|---|
| 0-2 | $49,591 |
| 3 | $49,591 |
| 4 | $49,591 |
| 5 | $49,591 |
| 6 | $49,591 |
| 7 | $49,591 |
| 8 | $49,591 |
| 9 | $49,591 |
| 10 | $49,591 |
| 11 | $49,591 |
| 12 | $49,591 |
| 13 | $49,591 |
| 14 | $49,591 |
| 15 | $50,404 |
| 16 | $51,217 |
| 17 | $52,030 |
| 18 | $52,843 |
| 19 | $53,656 |
| 20 | $54,469 |
| 21 | $55,282 |
| 22 | $56,095 |
| 23 | $56,908 |
| 24 | $57,721 |
| 25 | $58,534 |
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Per month (12)
$4,132.58
Next 5 steps in this lane
| Years of experience | Salary | vs. selected |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | $49,591 | +$0 |
| 4 | $49,591 | +$0 |
| 5 | $49,591 | +$0 |
| 6 | $49,591 | +$0 |
| 7 | $49,591 | +$0 |
Worked example as rendered: Bachelor degree / base, years of experience 0-2 = $49,591 a year, $4,132.58 a month spread over 12 months. Monthly and daily figures are arithmetic on the published annual cell, before any supplement, stipend or deduction.
Advanced degrees are flat supplements added to the bachelor base, the same at every step: Master's $2,700, Specialist $3,800, PhD $4,400. The document prints them as their own columns beside the base.
Effective 1 July 2011, instructional personnel hired after 30 August 2011 with an advanced degree in their area of certification are paid the bachelor base plus the supplement for that degree; those whose degree is not in the area of certification are paid from the bachelor column only.
The teacher work day is 7 hours and 15 minutes. Twelve month instructional personnel receive an additional 20 percent of these salaries.
Performance pay is part of base pay: $1,097.55 for a highly effective and $817.06 for an effective instructional evaluation.
- Soft spot: The agreement PDF is a scan with no text layer. The figures were read from the page image, checked against the identical FY 2024-2025 sheet the district publishes separately, and confirmed to be an exact $49,591 base with a flat $813 step from year 15 through year 25.
How this schedule moves
On the Bachelor degree / base column a teacher moves from $49,591 at years of experience 0-2 to $58,534 at years of experience 25: 23 years of experience increases worth $389 each on average, 18% in total.
The largest single increase on that column is $813, between years of experience 14 and years of experience 15.
12 of the 23 years of experience moves on that column carry no increase: the schedule prints the same figure for consecutive years of experiences.
Among the 60 Florida district schedules indexed here, Lafayette County School Board's starting pay ranks 24th and its top cell ranks 46th; 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 45th percentile and the top cell at the 7th percentile.
Against Florida districts of similar size
| District | Students | Year | Starting | Master's start | Top cell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lafayette County School Board | 1,133 | 2025-26 | $49,591 | – | $58,534 |
| Franklin County School Board | 1,206 | 2025-26 | $50,000 | – | $75,030 |
| Liberty County School Board | 1,288 | 2026-27 | $45,000 | – | $51,160 |
| Jefferson County School District | 705 | 2024-25 | $48,500 | – | $68,500 |
| Hamilton County School Board | 1,637 | 2025-26 | $47,500 | – | $63,400 |
| Glades County School District | 1,792 | 2023-24 | $51,000 | – | $66,800 |
Starting pay is the first years of experience of the bachelor's column where the schedule has one, otherwise the lowest first-years of experience cell. Enrollment is NCES 2023-24. Years differ where districts publish on different cycles.
Questions people ask
What is the starting teacher salary in Lafayette County School Board?
$49,591 on the lane Bachelor degree / base at years of experience 0-2 of the 2025-26 schedule (Lafayette County School Board). The lowest cell on the whole grid is $49,591 (Bachelor degree / base).
What is the top of the Lafayette County School Board salary schedule?
$58,534, at years of experience 25 on Bachelor degree / base (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 Lafayette County School Board salary schedule?
On the Bachelor degree / base column the top figure, $58,534, is reached at years of experience 25, 23 years of experience increases after years of experience 0-2 (2025-26 schedule).
Other Florida districts with schedules
- Franklin County School Boardstarts $50,000
- Liberty County School Boardstarts $45,000
- Jefferson County School Districtstarts $48,500
- Hamilton County School Boardstarts $47,500
- Glades County School Districtstarts $51,000
- Gulf County School Boardstarts $45,900
- Calhoun County School Districtstarts $45,925
- Dixie District Schoolsstarts $47,500
- District School Board of Madison Countystarts $45,000
- Union County School Districtstarts $47,500
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