Annual salary
$49,699
Rhode Island · salary schedule · 2025-26
Pawtucket School Department salary schedule, 2025-26
Teacher Salary Scale (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.
- Pawtucket School Department's 2025-26 salary schedule starts at $49,699 (BACHELOR, step 1) and tops out at $99,768 (DOCTORATE, step +25), per Pawtucket School Department / Pawtucket Teachers' Alliance, AFT Local 930 contract 2023-2026 (effective ).
- A teacher on the bachelor's column (BACHELOR) starts at $49,699 and reaches $96,053 at the top of that column.
- On the master's column (MASTER EQUIV.) the range is $52,240 to $98,593.
- The schedule is built on 184 work days, which makes the starting cell about $270.10 per day.
- The grid has 5 column columns and 13 step rows; the highest cell is reached at step +25.
- Pawtucket enrolled 7,887 students in 2023-24, the 4th-largest district in Rhode Island by NCES enrollment.
Teacher Salary Scale (2025-26)
Official sourceDocumentPawtucket School Department / Pawtucket Teachers' Alliance, AFT Local 930 contract 2023-2026School year2025-26EffectiveWork days184
| Step \ Column | BACHELOR | MASTER EQUIV. | MASTER | MASTER +30 | DOCTORATE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $49,699 | $52,240 | $52,540 | $52,868 | $53,415 |
| 2 | $54,559 | $57,099 | $57,400 | $57,728 | $58,274 |
| 3 | $59,419 | $61,960 | $62,260 | $62,588 | $63,134 |
| 4 | $64,277 | $66,818 | $67,119 | $67,446 | $67,993 |
| 5 | $69,132 | $71,673 | $71,974 | $72,301 | $72,848 |
| 6 | $73,994 | $76,535 | $76,835 | $77,163 | $77,709 |
| 7 | $78,850 | $81,391 | $81,691 | $82,019 | $82,565 |
| 8 | $83,709 | $86,250 | $86,551 | $86,878 | $87,425 |
| 9 | $88,566 | $91,106 | $91,407 | $91,734 | $92,281 |
| 10 | $93,430 | $95,971 | $96,271 | $96,599 | $97,146 |
| +15 | $94,086 | $96,627 | $96,927 | $97,255 | $97,801 |
| +20 | $94,960 | $97,501 | $97,801 | $98,129 | $98,675 |
| +25 | $96,053 | $98,593 | $98,894 | $99,222 | $99,768 |
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Per month (12)
$4,141.58
Per work day
$270.10 / 184 days
Next 5 steps in this column
| Step | Salary | vs. selected |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $54,559 | +$4,860 |
| 3 | $59,419 | +$9,720 |
| 4 | $64,277 | +$14,578 |
| 5 | $69,132 | +$19,433 |
| 6 | $73,994 | +$24,295 |
Worked example as rendered: BACHELOR, step 1 = $49,699 a year, $4,141.58 a month spread over 12 months, $270.10 per work day on a 184-day year. Monthly and daily figures are arithmetic on the published annual cell, before any supplement, stipend or deduction.
Appendix D of the Pawtucket Teachers' Alliance (AFT Local 930) contract covering September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2026. The contract prints one scale per year in Appendices B, C and D; Appendix D, the 2025-2026 scale, is the most recent one published.
Steps +15, +20 and +25 are longevity steps beyond step 10, reached at 15, 20 and 25 years.
The appendix states the scale is based on a school year totaling 184 days: 180 days of instruction and 4 professional days.
An additional $5,000 is added to a teacher's salary for attainment of National Board Certification.
Department head differentials (2 to 8 percent of scale by number of periods, $1,869 to $7,474 in 2025-2026) are excluded.
- Soft spot: No 2026-27 scale is published. The 2023-2026 agreement expired August 31, 2026 and the district's human resources page still lists it as the current teacher contract, so the latest published year, 2025-26, is what is recorded here.
- Soft spot: The contract's table of contents still labels Appendices B, C and D as the 2020-21 through 2022-23 scales; the appendix pages themselves are headed 2023-2024, 2024-2025 and 2025-2026, and the appendix headings were used.
Questions people ask
What is the starting teacher salary in Pawtucket School Department?
$49,699 on the column BACHELOR at step 1 of the 2025-26 schedule (Pawtucket School Department / Pawtucket Teachers' Alliance, AFT Local 930 contract 2023-2026). The lowest cell on the whole grid is $49,699 (BACHELOR).
What is the top of the Pawtucket School Department salary schedule?
$99,768, at step +25 on DOCTORATE (2025-26). That is the highest published cell before any stipend, longevity or supplement not printed on the grid.
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