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Florence 01 salary schedule, 2025-26

District minimum salary schedule, 2025-26. The grid below is the schedule as published, every cell; pick a class and years of experience to see the annual, monthly and per-day figure and the next five steps.

District minimum salary schedule, 2025-26

Official sourceDocumentSouth Carolina Department of Education, Office of FinanceSchool year2025-26Effective
Years of experience \ ClassBachelors - Class 3Masters - Class 1Masters + 30 hrs - Class 7Doctorate - Class 8
0$48,500$52,500$54,533$57,502
1$48,750$53,850$57,533$60,502
2$49,431$55,131$58,746$62,299
3$50,537$56,262$59,913$64,090
4$50,761$56,418$60,102$64,460
5$50,973$56,711$60,217$64,973
6$51,216$56,856$60,407$65,436
7$52,193$57,953$61,504$66,788
8$53,175$59,051$62,491$68,251
9$54,150$60,039$63,589$69,607
10$55,132$61,138$64,684$71,070
11$56,109$62,233$65,677$72,426
12$57,085$63,223$66,772$73,888
13$58,000$64,320$67,871$75,350
14$58,901$65,420$68,860$76,707
15$59,867$66,407$69,956$78,168
16$60,799$67,506$71,055$79,524
17$61,819$68,601$72,043$80,987
18$62,852$69,589$73,139$82,342
19$63,811$70,667$74,219$83,775
20$64,305$71,278$74,833$84,506
21$64,907$71,887$75,444$85,239
22$65,398$72,390$76,060$85,974
23$66,003$73,000$76,677$86,710
24$66,974$74,261$77,973$88,107
25$67,081$74,369$78,080$88,214
26$67,188$74,476$78,187$88,321
27$67,295$74,584$78,294$88,428
28$67,403$74,691$78,402$88,535
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Annual salary
$48,500
Per month (12)
$4,041.67

Worked example as rendered: Bachelors - Class 3, years of experience 0 = $48,500 a year, $4,041.67 a month spread over 12 months. Monthly and daily figures are arithmetic on the published annual cell, before any supplement, stipend or deduction.

South Carolina collects every district's minimum salary schedule and publishes them together in one annual workbook. This grid is that district's filing.

These are district MINIMUM figures as filed with the state. A district can pay above them through supplements, and many do.

Class numbers are South Carolina's certificate classes: Class 3 bachelor's, Class 1 master's, Class 7 master's plus 30 hours, Class 8 doctorate.

Lanes are shown bachelor's first; the source workbook lists them doctorate first.

How this schedule moves

On the Bachelors - Class 3 column a teacher moves from $48,500 at years of experience 0 to $67,403 at years of experience 28: 28 years of experience increases worth $675 each on average, 39% in total.

The largest single increase on that column is $1,106, between years of experience 2 and years of experience 3.

A master's degree is worth $4,000 more than a bachelor's at the first years of experience (8.2%) and $7,288 more at the top of the column (10.8%).

The highest-paid column, Doctorate - Class 8, starts at $57,502 and tops out at $88,535, 31% above the top of the Bachelors - Class 3 column.

Among the 77 South Carolina district schedules indexed here, Florence 01's starting pay ranks 57th and its top cell ranks 49th; the state medians are $50,015 to start and $90,490 at the top.

Across all 3,959 district grids indexed nationally, that starting figure sits at the 42nd percentile and the top cell at the 45th percentile.

Column by column

ClassFirst years of experienceTopYears of experience moves to topGrowth
Bachelors - Class 3$48,500$67,4032839%
Masters - Class 1$52,500$74,6912842%
Masters + 30 hrs - Class 7$54,533$78,4022844%
Doctorate - Class 8$57,502$88,5352854%

Against South Carolina districts of similar size

DistrictStudentsYearStartingMaster's startTop cell
Florence 0115,9102025-26$48,500$52,500$88,535
Pickens 0116,2232025-26$50,600$55,600$92,444
York 0316,3162025-26$52,000$59,000$93,455
Lancaster 0115,2982025-26$50,115$55,001$92,199
Lexington 0517,2782025-26$50,922$53,176$94,136
Sumter 0114,3012025-26$48,500$52,500$91,832

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

Questions people ask

What is the starting teacher salary in Florence 01?

$48,500 on the class Bachelors - Class 3 at years of experience 0 of the 2025-26 schedule (South Carolina Department of Education, Office of Finance). The lowest cell on the whole grid is $48,500 (Bachelors - Class 3).

What is the top of the Florence 01 salary schedule?

$88,535, at years of experience 28 on Doctorate - Class 8 (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 Florence 01 salary schedule?

On the Bachelors - Class 3 column the top figure, $67,403, is reached at years of experience 28, 28 years of experience increases after years of experience 0 (2025-26 schedule).

How much more does a master's degree pay in Florence 01?

$4,000 more at the first years of experience: $52,500 on Masters - Class 1 against $48,500 on Bachelors - Class 3 (2025-26 schedule).

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