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Spotswood Public School District salary schedule, 2025-26

Teacher salary guide, 2025-26. 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.

Teacher salary guide, 2025-26

Official sourceDocumentNew Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission, Public Sector Contracts databaseSchool year2025-26Effective
Step \ ColumnBABA+15MAMA+30DOCTORATE
1$55,000$55,500$56,000$56,500$57,000
2$55,800$56,300$56,800$57,300$57,800
3$56,500$57,000$57,500$58,000$58,500
4$57,334$57,834$58,334$58,834$59,334
5$59,264$59,764$60,264$60,764$61,264
6$61,379$61,879$62,379$62,879$63,379
7$63,725$64,225$64,725$65,225$65,725
8$66,380$66,880$67,380$67,880$68,380
9$68,880$69,380$69,880$70,380$70,880
10$71,020$71,520$72,020$72,520$73,020
11$74,680$75,180$75,680$76,180$76,680
12$78,350$78,850$79,350$79,850$80,350
13$82,220$82,720$83,220$83,720$84,220
14$85,450$85,950$86,450$86,950$87,450
15$90,100$90,600$91,100$91,600$92,100
16$94,500$95,000$95,500$96,000$96,500
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Annual salary
$55,000
Per month (12)
$4,583.33

Worked example as rendered: BA, step 1 = $55,000 a year, $4,583.33 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: 07/01/2022 - 06/30/2026.

Bargained with Spotswood EA.

Read from the text layer of the PDF filed with PERC.

The agreement labels this guide 2025-26. A multi-year agreement prints one guide per year of its term; a successor agreement may already be in force locally.

The district prints one table per lane, each with a column for every year of the 2022-2026 agreement: BA on Appendix A.1, BA+15 on A.2, MA on A.3, MA+30 on A.4 and Doctorate on A.5 (pages 55 to 59 of the filed agreement). This grid is the 2025-26 column of each of those five tables, which is the last year the agreement covers.

Each table is printed to be read horizontally: a teacher's step number changes from year to year, and the step numbers here are the ones printed beside the 2025-26 column.

The 2025-26 column prints step 16 on its last four rows, which is how the guide tops out; step 16 is listed once here.

How this schedule moves

On the BA column a teacher moves from $55,000 at step 1 to $94,500 at step 16: 15 step increases worth $2,633 each on average, 72% in total.

The largest single increase on that column is $4,650, between step 14 and step 15.

A master's degree is worth $1,000 more than a bachelor's at the first step (1.8%) and $1,000 more at the top of the column (1.1%).

The highest-paid column, DOCTORATE, starts at $57,000 and tops out at $96,500, 2% above the top of the BA column.

Among the 324 New Jersey district schedules indexed here, Spotswood Public School District's starting pay ranks 299th and its top cell ranks 243rd; the state medians are $60,500 to start and $102,854 at the top.

Across all 3,959 district grids indexed nationally, that starting figure sits at the 63rd percentile and the top cell at the 56th percentile.

Column by column

ColumnFirst stepTopStep moves to topGrowth
BA$55,000$94,5001572%
BA+15$55,500$95,0001571%
MA$56,000$95,5001571%
MA+30$56,500$96,0001570%
DOCTORATE$57,000$96,5001569%

Against New Jersey districts of similar size

DistrictStudentsYearStartingMaster's startTop cell
Spotswood Public School District1,6962025-26$55,000$56,000$96,500
Hasbrouck Heights School District1,6942025-26$59,980$66,100$109,725
West Essex Regional School District1,6942026-27$63,618$66,799$120,272
Somerset Hills Regional School District1,6992026-27$69,205$75,555$119,620
Little Egg Harbor Township School District1,6832023-24$65,524$67,499$90,899
Cresskill Public School District1,7092025-26$58,885$68,885$118,001

Starting pay is the first step of the bachelor's column where the schedule has one, otherwise the lowest first-step cell. Enrollment is NCES 2023-24. Years differ where districts publish on different cycles.

Questions people ask

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

$55,000 on the column BA at step 1 of the 2025-26 schedule (New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission, Public Sector Contracts database). The lowest cell on the whole grid is $55,000 (BA).

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

$96,500, at step 16 on DOCTORATE (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 Spotswood Public School District salary schedule?

On the BA column the top figure, $94,500, is reached at step 16, 15 step increases after step 1 (2025-26 schedule).

How much more does a master's degree pay in Spotswood Public School District?

$1,000 more at the first step: $56,000 on MA against $55,000 on BA (2025-26 schedule).

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