Annual salary
$51,132
Rhode Island · salary schedule · 2026-27
Cranston Public Schools salary schedule, 2026-27
Annual Salary, teacher scale (2026-27). The grid below is the schedule as published, every cell; pick a schedule and step to see the annual, monthly and per-day figure and the next five steps.
- Cranston Public Schools's 2026-27 salary schedule starts at $51,132 (Annual salary, step 1) and tops out at $95,553 (Annual salary, step 11), per Cranston Public Schools / Cranston Teachers' Alliance master agreement 2025-2028 (effective ).
- The schedule is built on 182 work days, which makes the starting cell about $280.95 per day.
- The grid has 1 schedule columns and 11 step rows; the highest cell is reached at step 11.
- Cranston enrolled 10,126 students in 2023-24, the 2nd-largest district in Rhode Island by NCES enrollment.
Annual Salary, teacher scale (2026-27)
Transcribed from imageDocumentCranston Public Schools / Cranston Teachers' Alliance master agreement 2025-2028School year2026-27EffectiveWork days182
| Step \ Schedule | Annual salary |
|---|---|
| 1 | $51,132 |
| 2 | $54,251 |
| 3 | $57,560 |
| 4 | $61,072 |
| 5 | $64,798 |
| 6 | $68,750 |
| 7 | $72,943 |
| 8 | $77,393 |
| 9 | $82,115 |
| 10 | $89,634 |
| 11 | $95,553 |
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Per month (12)
$4,261.00
Per work day
$280.95 / 182 days
Next 5 steps in this schedule
| Step | Salary | vs. selected |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $54,251 | +$3,119 |
| 3 | $57,560 | +$6,428 |
| 4 | $61,072 | +$9,940 |
| 5 | $64,798 | +$13,666 |
| 6 | $68,750 | +$17,618 |
Worked example as rendered: Annual salary, step 1 = $51,132 a year, $4,261.00 a month spread over 12 months, $280.95 per work day on a 182-day year. Monthly and daily figures are arithmetic on the published annual cell, before any supplement, stipend or deduction.
Appendix A (Annual Salary) of the 2025-2028 CTA teacher contract. The appendix publishes one column per school year; the 2026-2027 column is recorded here.
Steps 1 through 10 do not increase in 2026-2027; only step 11 rises, by 2.75 percent. The same pattern repeats in 2027-2028.
Cranston publishes a single annual salary column with no degree lanes. Advanced degrees are flat annual stipends added to the step: BA plus 36 $2,181, MA $3,677, MA plus 30 $4,687, CAGS $5,567, Doctorate $6,275, and $4,000 for National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification. Those stipend amounts are frozen for the life of the 2025-2028 agreement.
Longevity increments are $1,914 at 20 years, $2,150 at 25 years and $2,378 at 30 years.
The old steps 1 and 2 were eliminated at the start of 2025-2026 and every teacher moved down one step number, so the step 1 on this grid is the former step 3 amount.
Article on the work year: no more than 182 days, and services beyond the last teacher day are paid at 1/182 of annual salary.
Department chair, program supervisor, adult education and summer school rates in Appendices B, C and D are excluded.
- Soft spot: The contract PDF is a scan with no text layer. Numbers were read by OCR and verified against a high-resolution rendering of Appendix A by eye.
- Soft spot: The 2027-2028 column prints step 7 as 72,973 where 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 both print 72,943; that looks like a typographical error in the document but it does not affect the 2026-2027 column recorded here.
Questions people ask
What is the starting salary on the Cranston Public Schools schedule?
$51,132 at step 1 on Annual salary, per the 2026-27 schedule (Cranston Public Schools / Cranston Teachers' Alliance master agreement 2025-2028).
What is the top of the Cranston Public Schools salary schedule?
$95,553, at step 11 on Annual salary (2026-27). That is the highest published cell before any stipend, longevity or supplement not printed on the grid.
Other Rhode Island districts with schedules
- Warwick Public Schoolsstarts $54,192
- Pawtucket School Departmentstarts $49,699
- Woonsocket Education Departmentstarts $52,132
- Providence Public School Districtstarts $50,155.74
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