Annual salary
$2,700
North Carolina · salary schedule · 2025-26
Polk County Schools salary schedule, 2025-26
Estimated Supplement Proposal 2025-2026 School Year. The grid below is the schedule as published, every cell; pick a installment and years of service in north carolina to see the annual, monthly and per-day figure and the next five steps.
- Polk County Schools pays a local salary supplement of $2,160 to $3,450 for 2025-26, on top of the North Carolina state salary schedule, per Polk County Schools Board of Education (effective ).
- This is the supplement only. A teacher's total pay is the state schedule plus this amount, so the figures below are not a full salary.
- Polk County Schools enrolled 2,156 students in 2023-24, the 90th-largest district in North Carolina by NCES enrollment.
Estimated Supplement Proposal 2025-2026 School Year
| Years of Service in North Carolina \ Installment | Fall | Spring |
|---|---|---|
| 0-4 | $2,700 | $2,160 |
| 5-9 | $2,850 | $2,360 |
| 10-14 | $3,000 | $2,560 |
| 15-19 | $3,150 | $2,760 |
| 20-24 | $3,300 | $2,960 |
| 25+ | $3,450 | $3,160 |
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Per month (12)
$225.00
Next 5 steps in this installment
| Years of Service in North Carolina | Salary | vs. selected |
|---|---|---|
| 5-9 | $2,850 | +$150 |
| 10-14 | $3,000 | +$300 |
| 15-19 | $3,150 | +$450 |
| 20-24 | $3,300 | +$600 |
| 25+ | $3,450 | +$750 |
Worked example as rendered: Fall, years of service in north carolina 0-4 = $2,700 a year, $225.00 a month spread over 12 months. Monthly and daily figures are arithmetic on the published annual cell, before any supplement, stipend or deduction.
These are LOCAL SUPPLEMENT amounts paid on top of the NC state salary schedule, not total salary.
The supplement is paid in two installments; the two columns are the Fall and Spring payments for the same year, so a teacher's annual local supplement is the Fall amount plus the Spring amount (the district's 2022-23 and 2023-24 editions of this same schedule carry an explicit 'Total' column equal to Fall + Spring, e.g. $2,500 + $700 = $3,200).
Implied annual totals are $4,860 (0-4), $5,210 (5-9), $5,560 (10-14), $5,910 (15-19), $6,260 (20-24) and $6,610 (25+).
Presented to the Polk County Board of Education at its 10 November 2025 meeting; the district posts its board briefs on moodle.polkschools.org, not on polkschools.org.
The district's Personnel page (https://polkschools.org/personnel/) states only that salaries are 'based upon the State or Local Salary Schedule' and publishes no grid; this board document is the only published local schedule.
Corroboration: NCDPI's 2025-26 Statistical Profile Table 20 reports Polk County Schools' average teacher supplement at $5,517, consistent with the $4,860-$6,610 range above.
- Soft spot: Values fall far below the usual teacher-salary sanity band because they are local supplements, not total salaries.
- Soft spot: The document is titled 'Estimated' and 'Proposal'; its own note says amounts are contingent on approved funding and that the Spring supplement is subject to adjustment based on final state and local allocation ratios.
- Soft spot: Unlike the district's 2022-23 and 2023-24 editions, the 2025-26 sheet publishes no Total column, so only the two installment columns are recorded verbatim.
- Soft spot: The PDF is a scanned image with no text layer; figures were read by OCR at 300 and 600 dpi under three page-segmentation modes, which agreed, and follow the document's own arithmetic (+$150 per tier in Fall, +$200 per tier in Spring).
Questions people ask
What is the starting salary on the Polk County Schools schedule?
$2,160 at years of service in north carolina 0-4 on Spring, per the 2025-26 schedule (Polk County Schools Board of Education).
What is the top of the Polk County Schools salary schedule?
$3,450, at years of service in north carolina 25+ on Fall (2025-26). That is the highest published cell before any stipend, longevity or supplement not printed on the grid.
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