Annual salary
$47,000
New York · salary schedule · 2025-26
Dunkirk City School District salary schedule, 2025-26
Teacher salary schedule (2025-26). The grid below is the schedule as published, every cell; pick a scale and step to see the annual, monthly and per-day figure and the next five steps.
- Dunkirk City School District's 2025-26 salary schedule starts at $47,000 (Salary, step 1) and tops out at $90,000 (Salary, step 17), per Empire Center, SeeThroughNY contract library (effective ).
- The grid has 1 scale columns and 17 step rows; the highest cell is reached at step 17.
- Dunkirk City School District enrolled 2,015 students in 2023-24, the 268th-largest district in New York by NCES enrollment.
Teacher salary schedule (2025-26)
| Step \ Scale | Salary |
|---|---|
| 1 | $47,000 |
| 2 | $48,000 |
| 3 | $49,000 |
| 4 | $50,000 |
| 5 | $51,000 |
| 6 | $52,000 |
| 7 | $53,000 |
| 8 | $54,500 |
| 9 | $56,000 |
| 10 | $57,500 |
| 11 | $61,500 |
| 12 | $66,000 |
| 13 | $70,500 |
| 14 | $75,000 |
| 15 | $79,500 |
| 16 | $84,500 |
| 17 | $90,000 |
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Per month (12)
$3,916.67
Next 5 steps in this scale
| Step | Salary | vs. selected |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $48,000 | +$1,000 |
| 3 | $49,000 | +$2,000 |
| 4 | $50,000 | +$3,000 |
| 5 | $51,000 | +$4,000 |
| 6 | $52,000 | +$5,000 |
Worked example as rendered: Salary, step 1 = $47,000 a year, $3,916.67 a month spread over 12 months. Monthly and daily figures are arithmetic on the published annual cell, before any supplement, stipend or deduction.
Appendix A of the Dunkirk Teachers' Association agreement prints one salary column per contract year, 2022-23 through 2025-2026, against a single step ladder. The 2025-2026 column is reproduced here as the current schedule.
Dunkirk does not pay by education lane: the schedule is a single scale, and a master's degree is a flat $725 differential rather than a column. Per-hour work is $55.00.
Teachers who reach the top of the ladder move to an off-step rate, which the agreement prints separately at $90,500.00 for a first year off step in 2025-2026, rising to $95,325.00 in a fourth year. Those are not steps on the schedule and are not included here.
Verified by reading the rendered page image at 300 dpi against the PDF's own text layer. The text layer is unreliable on this page: it renders $82,500.00 as $82.500.00 and $63,200.00 as $63 200.00, and the image settles both.
How this schedule moves
On the Salary column a teacher moves from $47,000 at step 1 to $90,000 at step 17: 16 step increases worth $2,688 each on average, 91% in total.
The largest single increase on that column is $5,500, between step 16 and step 17.
Among the 349 New York district schedules indexed here, Dunkirk City School District's starting pay ranks 284th and its top cell ranks 257th; the state medians are $53,485 to start and $104,483 at the top.
Across all 3,959 district grids indexed nationally, that starting figure sits at the 37th percentile and the top cell at the 47th percentile.
Against New York districts of similar size
| District | Students | Year | Starting | Master's start | Top cell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dunkirk City School District | 2,015 | 2025-26 | $47,000 | – | $90,000 |
| Hampton Bays Union Free School District | 2,018 | 2024-25 | $58,141 | $66,746 | $138,400 |
| Camden Central School District | 2,043 | 2026-27 | $40,880 | $44,808 | $76,314 |
| Elwood Union Free School District | 1,978 | 2026-27 | $57,426 | $68,744 | $142,232 |
| Cortland City School District | 1,970 | 2025-26 | $52,841 | – | $66,999 |
| Beekmantown Central School District | 2,060 | 2025-26 | $55,002 | – | $101,102 |
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 salary on the Dunkirk City School District schedule?
$47,000 at step 1 on Salary, per the 2025-26 schedule (Empire Center, SeeThroughNY contract library).
What is the top of the Dunkirk City School District salary schedule?
$90,000, at step 17 on Salary (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 Dunkirk City School District salary schedule?
On the Salary column the top figure, $90,000, is reached at step 17, 16 step increases after step 1 (2025-26 schedule).
Other New York districts with schedules
- Hampton Bays Union Free School Districtstarts $58,141
- Camden Central School Districtstarts $40,880
- Elwood Union Free School Districtstarts $57,426
- Cortland City School Districtstarts $52,841
- Beekmantown Central School Districtstarts $55,002
- Shoreham-Wading River Central School Districtstarts $54,067
- Chittenango Central School Districtstarts $50,660
- Mount Pleasant Central School Districtstarts $65,165
- Cohoes City School Districtstarts $48,904
- Iroquois Central School Districtstarts $44,800
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