Annual salary
$50,986
Florida · salary schedule · 2025-26
Santa Rosa County District Schools salary schedule, 2025-26
Instructional salary placement schedule (2025-26). The grid below is the schedule as published, every cell; pick a lane and years of qualified service to see the annual, monthly and per-day figure and the next five steps.
- Santa Rosa County District Schools's 2025-26 salary schedule starts at $50,986 (2025-26 salary placement, years of qualified service 0) and tops out at $70,584 (2025-26 salary placement, years of qualified service 30), per Santa Rosa County District Schools (effective ).
- The grid has 1 lane columns and 31 years of qualified service rows; the highest cell is reached at years of qualified service 30.
- Santa Rosa enrolled 29,824 students in 2023-24, the 26th-largest district in Florida by NCES enrollment.
Instructional salary placement schedule (2025-26)
| Years of qualified service \ Lane | 2025-26 salary placement |
|---|---|
| 0 | $50,986 |
| 1 | $50,986 |
| 2 | $50,986 |
| 3 | $51,935 |
| 4 | $51,935 |
| 5 | $51,935 |
| 6 | $51,935 |
| 7 | $52,061 |
| 8 | $52,061 |
| 9 | $52,061 |
| 10 | $52,186 |
| 11 | $52,186 |
| 12 | $52,186 |
| 13 | $52,311 |
| 14 | $52,311 |
| 15 | $52,424 |
| 16 | $52,924 |
| 17 | $53,813 |
| 18 | $54,717 |
| 19 | $55,600 |
| 20 | $56,572 |
| 21 | $57,521 |
| 22 | $58,843 |
| 23 | $60,195 |
| 24 | $61,581 |
| 25 | $62,997 |
| 26 | $64,448 |
| 27 | $65,929 |
| 28 | $67,445 |
| 29 | $68,998 |
| 30 | $70,584 |
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Per month (12)
$4,248.83
Next 5 steps in this lane
| Years of qualified service | Salary | vs. selected |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $50,986 | +$0 |
| 2 | $50,986 | +$0 |
| 3 | $51,935 | +$949 |
| 4 | $51,935 | +$949 |
| 5 | $51,935 | +$949 |
Worked example as rendered: 2025-26 salary placement, years of qualified service 0 = $50,986 a year, $4,248.83 a month spread over 12 months. Monthly and daily figures are arithmetic on the published annual cell, before any supplement, stipend or deduction.
Signed 28 April 2026. The header states a 2.00 percent salary increase, made up of 1.1707 percent new money plus 0.8293 percent TSIA and make-whole TSIA, and all increases are retroactive to July 1, 2025.
Instructional employees are placed at the level matching their years of qualified service; staff with over 30 years receive the same 2.00 percent increase over their 2024-25 salary rather than a further row.
The base used for supplements and advanced degrees is $40,084, not the placement figure.
The document also prints a FOCUS paystub level for each row, running 1 at zero years to 31 at thirty years.
- Soft spot: The PDF is a scan with no text layer; the figures were read from the page image twice, the second time from a 260 dpi crop of the salary column.
How this schedule moves
On the 2025-26 salary placement column a teacher moves from $50,986 at years of qualified service 0 to $70,584 at years of qualified service 30: 30 years of qualified service increases worth $653 each on average, 38% in total.
The largest single increase on that column is $1,586, between years of qualified service 29 and years of qualified service 30.
10 of the 30 years of qualified service moves on that column carry no increase: the schedule prints the same figure for consecutive years of qualified services.
Among the 60 Florida district schedules indexed here, Santa Rosa County District Schools's starting pay ranks 16th and its top cell ranks 24th; 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 50th percentile and the top cell at the 23rd percentile.
Against Florida districts of similar size
| District | Students | Year | Starting | Master's start | Top cell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Rosa County District Schools | 29,824 | 2025-26 | $50,986 | – | $70,584 |
| School Board of Alachua County | 28,749 | 2025-26 | $49,370 | $51,444 | $71,065 |
| Leon County Schools | 31,769 | 2025-26 | $47,500 | – | $67,840 |
| Bay District Schools | 27,675 | 2026-27 | $50,500 | – | $59,300 |
| School District of Okaloosa County | 32,426 | 2025-26 | $49,017 | – | $74,081 |
| Hernando County School District | 24,015 | 2025-26 | $48,350 | – | $73,340 |
Starting pay is the first years of qualified service of the bachelor's column where the schedule has one, otherwise the lowest first-years of qualified service cell. Enrollment is NCES 2023-24. Years differ where districts publish on different cycles.
Questions people ask
What is the starting salary on the Santa Rosa County District Schools schedule?
$50,986 at years of qualified service 0 on 2025-26 salary placement, per the 2025-26 schedule (Santa Rosa County District Schools).
What is the top of the Santa Rosa County District Schools salary schedule?
$70,584, at years of qualified service 30 on 2025-26 salary placement (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 Santa Rosa County District Schools salary schedule?
On the 2025-26 salary placement column the top figure, $70,584, is reached at years of qualified service 30, 30 years of qualified service increases after years of qualified service 0 (2025-26 schedule).
Other Florida districts with schedules
- School Board of Alachua Countystarts $49,370
- Leon County Schoolsstarts $47,500
- Bay District Schoolsstarts $50,500
- School District of Okaloosa Countystarts $49,017
- Hernando County School Districtstarts $48,350
- School District of Escambia Countystarts $48,300
- Clay County District Schoolsstarts $48,500
- Martin County School Districtstarts $51,300
- School District of Indian River Countystarts $48,583
- Charlotte County Public Schoolsstarts $58,154.00
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