Annual salary
$48,000
North Carolina · salary schedule · 2026-27
Mooresville Graded School District salary schedule, 2026-27
FY2026-27 Certified Teacher Salary Schedule. The grid below is the schedule as published, every cell; pick a degree / certification and years of experience to see the annual, monthly and per-day figure and the next five steps.
- Mooresville Graded School District's 2026-27 salary schedule starts at $48,000 (Bachelor's Teacher, years of experience 0) and tops out at $74,510 (PhD with NBPTS Certification, years of experience 25), per Mooresville Graded School District (effective ).
- A teacher on the bachelor's column (Bachelor's Teacher) starts at $48,000 and reaches $59,000 at the top of that column.
- On the master's column (Master's Teacher) the range is $52,800 to $64,900.
- The grid has 8 degree / certification columns and 26 years of experience rows; the highest cell is reached at years of experience 25.
- Mooresville Graded School District enrolled 5,845 students in 2023-24, the 54th-largest district in North Carolina by NCES enrollment.
FY2026-27 Certified Teacher Salary Schedule
| Years of Experience \ Degree / certification | Bachelor's Teacher | Bachelor's with NBPTS Certification | Master's Teacher | Master's with NBPTS Certification | Advanced (Sixth Year) Teacher | Advanced with NBPTS Certification | PhD Teacher | PhD with NBPTS Certification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | $48,000 | $52,800 | $54,060 | $55,330 | ||||
| 1 | $48,250 | $53,080 | $54,340 | $55,610 | ||||
| 2 | $48,500 | $53,350 | $54,610 | $55,880 | ||||
| 3 | $48,750 | $54,600 | $53,630 | $59,480 | $54,890 | $60,740 | $56,160 | $62,010 |
| 4 | $49,000 | $54,880 | $53,900 | $59,780 | $55,160 | $61,040 | $56,430 | $62,310 |
| 5 | $49,500 | $55,440 | $54,450 | $60,390 | $55,710 | $61,650 | $56,980 | $62,920 |
| 6 | $50,000 | $56,000 | $55,000 | $61,000 | $56,260 | $62,260 | $57,530 | $63,530 |
| 7 | $50,500 | $56,560 | $55,550 | $61,610 | $56,810 | $62,870 | $58,080 | $64,140 |
| 8 | $51,000 | $57,120 | $56,100 | $62,220 | $57,360 | $63,480 | $58,630 | $64,750 |
| 9 | $51,500 | $57,680 | $56,650 | $62,830 | $57,910 | $64,090 | $59,180 | $65,360 |
| 10 | $53,140 | $59,520 | $58,450 | $64,830 | $59,710 | $66,090 | $60,980 | $67,360 |
| 11 | $53,650 | $60,090 | $59,020 | $65,460 | $60,280 | $66,720 | $61,550 | $67,990 |
| 12 | $54,160 | $60,660 | $59,580 | $66,080 | $60,840 | $67,340 | $62,110 | $68,610 |
| 13 | $54,670 | $61,230 | $60,140 | $66,700 | $61,400 | $67,960 | $62,670 | $69,230 |
| 14 | $55,700 | $62,380 | $61,270 | $67,950 | $62,530 | $69,210 | $63,800 | $70,480 |
| 15 | $56,820 | $63,640 | $62,500 | $69,320 | $63,760 | $70,580 | $65,030 | $71,850 |
| 16 | $56,820 | $63,640 | $62,500 | $69,320 | $63,760 | $70,580 | $65,030 | $71,850 |
| 17 | $56,820 | $63,640 | $62,500 | $69,320 | $63,760 | $70,580 | $65,030 | $71,850 |
| 18 | $56,820 | $63,640 | $62,500 | $69,320 | $63,760 | $70,580 | $65,030 | $71,850 |
| 19 | $56,820 | $63,640 | $62,500 | $69,320 | $63,760 | $70,580 | $65,030 | $71,850 |
| 20 | $56,820 | $63,640 | $62,500 | $69,320 | $63,760 | $70,580 | $65,030 | $71,850 |
| 21 | $56,820 | $63,640 | $62,500 | $69,320 | $63,760 | $70,580 | $65,030 | $71,850 |
| 22 | $56,820 | $63,640 | $62,500 | $69,320 | $63,760 | $70,580 | $65,030 | $71,850 |
| 23 | $56,820 | $63,640 | $62,500 | $69,320 | $63,760 | $70,580 | $65,030 | $71,850 |
| 24 | $56,820 | $63,640 | $62,500 | $69,320 | $63,760 | $70,580 | $65,030 | $71,850 |
| 25 | $59,000 | $66,080 | $64,900 | $71,980 | $66,160 | $73,240 | $67,430 | $74,510 |
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Per month (12)
$4,000.00
Next 5 steps in this degree / certification
| Years of Experience | Salary | vs. selected |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $48,250 | +$250 |
| 2 | $48,500 | +$500 |
| 3 | $48,750 | +$750 |
| 4 | $49,000 | +$1,000 |
| 5 | $49,500 | +$1,500 |
Worked example as rendered: Bachelor's Teacher, years of experience 0 = $48,000 a year, $4,000.00 a month spread over 12 months. Monthly and daily figures are arithmetic on the published annual cell, before any supplement, stipend or deduction.
Mooresville Graded School District sets its own board-approved teacher salary schedule rather than reprinting the NC state schedule; the PDF is titled Fy27WebSchedules 07-01-2026 and every page is headed FY2026-27, Effective July 1, 2026.
The Bachelor's and Master's pages of the document print both a monthly amount and an Annual (10 Months) amount, and the annual amount equals the monthly amount times ten on every row. The Advanced (Sixth Year) and Doctorate pages print only the monthly (10 Months) amount, so their annual values here are the printed monthly amount times ten, using the document's own convention.
N/A in the NBPTS columns for years 0-2 is recorded as null: National Board certification is not attainable in a teacher's first three years.
The document's note reads: NBPTS stands for National Board for Professional Teacher Standards. NBPTS salary difference is based on the A (Bachelors) scale + 12% differential.
The same PDF continues with separate Instructional Support, daily-rate, guidance-counselor and school-psychologist schedules; only the three classroom-teacher pages (Bachelor's, Master's, Advanced and Doctoral) are recorded here.
MGSD also publishes a separate Mooresville Graded School District Supplement Schedules 2026-2027 document showing a 10% supplement for certified staff (12% for District Coordinator/District Specialist). The district does not state whether the amounts in this salary schedule already include that supplement.
- Soft spot: Advanced (Sixth Year) and Doctorate annual figures are derived (printed monthly amount x 10) because those two pages of the document publish no annual column.
- Soft spot: Values are flat from year 15 through year 24 and then step up once at year 25, which is how the document prints them.
- Soft spot: Read by OCR of the PDF page images because the PDF uses a custom font encoding that pdftotext cannot map; every OCR figure was cross-checked against the PDF's embedded text stream after solving the per-page character substitution, and all 8 columns x 26 rows matched.
How this schedule moves
On the Bachelor's Teacher column a teacher moves from $48,000 at years of experience 0 to $59,000 at years of experience 25: 25 years of experience increases worth $440 each on average, 23% in total.
The largest single increase on that column is $2,180, between years of experience 24 and years of experience 25.
9 of the 25 years of experience moves on that column carry no increase: the schedule prints the same figure for consecutive years of experiences.
A master's degree is worth $4,800 more than a bachelor's at the first years of experience (10.0%) and $5,900 more at the top of the column (10.0%).
The highest-paid column, PhD with NBPTS Certification, starts at $62,010 and tops out at $74,510, 26% above the top of the Bachelor's Teacher column.
Among the 10 North Carolina district schedules indexed here, Mooresville Graded School District's starting pay ranks 10th and its top cell ranks 10th; the state medians are $54,825 to start and $86,368 at the top.
Across all 3,959 district grids indexed nationally, that starting figure sits at the 39th percentile and the top cell at the 29th percentile.
Column by column
| Degree / certification | First years of experience | Top | Years of Experience moves to top | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor's Teacher | $48,000 | $59,000 | 25 | 23% |
| Bachelor's with NBPTS Certification | $54,600 | $66,080 | 22 | 21% |
| Master's Teacher | $52,800 | $64,900 | 25 | 23% |
| Master's with NBPTS Certification | $59,480 | $71,980 | 22 | 21% |
| Advanced (Sixth Year) Teacher | $54,060 | $66,160 | 25 | 22% |
| Advanced with NBPTS Certification | $60,740 | $73,240 | 22 | 21% |
| PhD Teacher | $55,330 | $67,430 | 25 | 22% |
| PhD with NBPTS Certification | $62,010 | $74,510 | 22 | 20% |
Against North Carolina districts of similar size
| District | Students | Year | Starting | Master's start | Top cell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mooresville Graded School District | 5,845 | 2026-27 | $48,000 | $52,800 | $74,510 |
| Asheville City Schools | 3,977 | 2026-27 | $53,060 | $58,370 | $88,290 |
| Clinton City Schools | 3,005 | 2026-27 | $55,536 | – | $75,754 |
| Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools | 11,386 | 2026-27 | $56,640.00 | $62,304.00 | $91,414.60 |
| Durham Public Schools | 31,339 | 2025-26 | $48,750 | $53,350 | $85,705 |
| Johnston County Public Schools | 37,289 | 2024-25 | $48,815 | $53,387 | $81,258 |
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 Mooresville Graded School District?
$48,000 on the degree / certification Bachelor's Teacher at years of experience 0 of the 2026-27 schedule (Mooresville Graded School District). The lowest cell on the whole grid is $48,000 (Bachelor's Teacher).
What is the top of the Mooresville Graded School District salary schedule?
$74,510, at years of experience 25 on PhD with NBPTS Certification (2026-27). 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 Mooresville Graded School District salary schedule?
On the Bachelor's Teacher column the top figure, $59,000, is reached at years of experience 25, 25 years of experience increases after years of experience 0 (2026-27 schedule).
How much more does a master's degree pay in Mooresville Graded School District?
$4,800 more at the first years of experience: $52,800 on Master's Teacher against $48,000 on Bachelor's Teacher (2026-27 schedule).
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