Clayton Public School District salary schedule, 2026-27

Teacher salary guide, 2026-27. The grid below is the schedule as published, every cell; pick a column and step to see the annual, monthly and per-day figure and the next five steps.

Clayton Public School District's 2026-27 salary schedule starts at $55,240 (BA, step 1) and tops out at $90,091 (MA+30, step 13), per New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission, Public Sector Contracts database (effective July 1, 2026).
A teacher on the bachelor's column (BA) starts at $55,240 and reaches $85,699 at the top of that column.
On the master's column (MA) the range is $57,959 to $88,418.
The grid has 6 column columns and 13 step rows; the highest cell is reached at step 13.
Clayton Public School District enrolled 1,515 students in 2023-24, the 240th-largest district in New Jersey by NCES enrollment.

Teacher salary guide, 2026-27

Transcribed from imageDocumentNew Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission, Public Sector Contracts databaseSchool year2026-27EffectiveJuly 1, 2026

Step \ Column	BA	BA+15	BA+30	MA	MA+15	MA+30
1	$55,240	$56,495	$57,122	$57,959	$58,586	$59,632
2	$55,740	$56,995	$57,622	$58,459	$59,086	$60,132
3	$56,240	$57,495	$58,122	$58,959	$59,586	$60,632
4	$56,840	$58,095	$58,722	$59,559	$60,186	$61,232
5	$57,440	$58,695	$59,322	$60,159	$60,786	$61,832
6	$59,342	$60,597	$61,224	$62,061	$62,688	$63,734
7	$61,442	$62,697	$63,324	$64,161	$64,788	$65,834
8	$64,042	$65,297	$65,924	$66,761	$67,388	$68,434
9	$67,642	$68,897	$69,524	$70,361	$70,988	$72,034
10	$71,542	$72,797	$73,424	$74,261	$74,888	$75,934
11	$75,642	$76,897	$77,524	$78,361	$78,988	$80,034
12	$79,742	$80,997	$81,624	$82,461	$83,088	$84,134
13	$85,699	$86,954	$87,581	$88,418	$89,045	$90,091

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Column

Step

Annual salary

$55,240

Per month (12)

$4,603.33

Next 5 steps in this column

Step	Salary	vs. selected
2	$55,740	+$500
3	$56,240	+$1,000
4	$56,840	+$1,600
5	$57,440	+$2,200
6	$59,342	+$4,102

Worked example as rendered: BA, step 1 = $55,240 a year, $4,603.33 a month spread over 12 months. Monthly and daily figures are arithmetic on the published annual cell, before any supplement, stipend or deduction.

New Jersey has no statewide teacher salary schedule and the state Department of Education publishes no collection of them. Pay is bargained district by district, and this guide comes from the salary appendix of the agreement the district filed with the New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission.

Agreement term: 07/01/2023 - 06/30/2028.

Bargained with Clayton EA.

The agreement is on file at PERC as a scan with no text layer. The guide was read off the scanned page and every figure was then checked against the page as rendered.

The agreement labels this guide 2026-27. A multi-year agreement prints one guide per year of its term; a successor agreement may already be in force locally.

The agreement runs 2023-24 through 2027-28 and prints one guide per year on its own page; this is the 2026-27 page.

Soft spot: Step 11 in the BA+30 column reads 77,524 on the page; the text read of it returned 77,824. The figure published is the one printed in the agreement.

Questions people ask

What is the starting teacher salary in Clayton Public School District?

$55,240 on the column BA at step 1 of the 2026-27 schedule (New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission, Public Sector Contracts database). The lowest cell on the whole grid is $55,240 (BA).

What is the top of the Clayton Public School District salary schedule?

$90,091, at step 13 on MA+30 (2026-27). That is the highest published cell before any stipend, longevity or supplement not printed on the grid.

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