Battle Creek Public Schools salary schedule, 2025-26

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

Battle Creek Public Schools's 2025-26 salary schedule starts at $50,000 (BA, step 1) and tops out at $82,010 (MA, step 21), per Battle Creek Public Schools (effective July 1, 2025).
A teacher on the bachelor's column (BA) starts at $50,000 and reaches $76,065 at the top of that column.
On the master's column (MA) the range is $52,122 to $82,010.
The schedule is built on 188 work days, which makes the starting cell about $265.96 per day.
The grid has 2 lane columns and 21 step rows; the highest cell is reached at step 21.
Battle Creek Public Schools enrolled 3,693 students in 2023-24, the 84th-largest district in Michigan by NCES enrollment.

Teacher salary schedule (2025-26)

Transcribed from imageDocumentBattle Creek Public SchoolsSchool year2025-26EffectiveJuly 1, 2025Work days188

Step \ Lane	BA	MA
1	$50,000	$52,122
2	$51,372	$53,616
3	$52,744	$55,111
4	$54,116	$56,605
5	$55,487	$58,100
6	$56,859	$59,594
7	$58,231	$60,088
8	$59,603	$62,583
9	$60,975	$64,077
10	$62,347	$65,572
11	$63,718	$67,066
12	$65,090	$68,560
13	$66,462	$70,055
14	$67,834	$71,549
15	$69,206	$73,044
16	$70,578	$74,538
17	$71,949	$76,032
18	$73,321	$77,527
19	$74,693	$79,021
20	$76,065	$80,516
21		$82,010

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Lane

Step

Annual salary

$50,000

Per month (12)

$4,166.67

Per work day

$265.96 / 188 days

Next 5 steps in this lane

Step	Salary	vs. selected
2	$51,372	+$1,372
3	$52,744	+$2,744
4	$54,116	+$4,116
5	$55,487	+$5,487
6	$56,859	+$6,859

Worked example as rendered: BA, step 1 = $50,000 a year, $4,166.67 a month spread over 12 months, $265.96 per work day on a 188-day year. Monthly and daily figures are arithmetic on the published annual cell, before any supplement, stipend or deduction.

K-12 Salary Schedule printed on the last page of the 2025-2028 Battle Creek Education Association, MEA/NEA agreement; the page header states 188 work days.

Appendix A of the same agreement states teachers receive steps and lanes for the 2025-2026 school year and that a wage re-opener occurs for each of 2026-2027 and 2027-2028, so this grid is the 2025-26 schedule.

The document prints a separate ECE Salary Schedule (175 work days, ECEB and ECEM columns) beside this one; those early childhood rates are not included here.

Steps are printed as lane-step codes (BA-1 ... BA-20, MA-1 ... MA-21). The BA lane stops at step 20.

A PhD or EdD adds a $3,500 annual stipend and National Board Certification adds $1,000; neither is part of the grid.

Soft spot: The contract PDF has no text layer; the grid was read from the page image at 400 and 900 dpi.
Soft spot: MA-7 is printed as $60,088. Every other MA step rises by about $1,494, which would put MA-7 at about $61,088, so the printed figure looks like a typo in the source document. It is recorded exactly as printed.

Questions people ask

What is the starting teacher salary in Battle Creek Public Schools?

$50,000 on the lane BA at step 1 of the 2025-26 schedule (Battle Creek Public Schools). The lowest cell on the whole grid is $50,000 (BA).

What is the top of the Battle Creek Public Schools salary schedule?

$82,010, at step 21 on MA (2025-26). That is the highest published cell before any stipend, longevity or supplement not printed on the grid.

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