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Florence 05 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$49,950$53,950$55,450$57,950
1$50,200$54,200$55,700$58,450
2$50,450$54,450$55,950$58,950
3$50,700$54,700$56,200$59,450
4$50,950$54,950$56,450$59,950
5$51,950$55,950$56,950$60,450
6$52,450$56,450$57,450$60,950
7$52,950$56,950$57,950$61,950
8$53,450$57,450$58,450$63,450
9$53,950$57,950$58,950$64,950
10$54,950$58,950$59,950$66,200
11$55,450$59,450$60,950$67,450
12$55,950$60,200$61,950$68,700
13$56,450$60,950$62,950$69,950
14$56,950$61,700$63,950$71,200
15$57,450$62,450$64,950$72,450
16$57,950$63,200$65,950$73,700
17$58,450$63,950$66,950$74,950
18$59,350$65,100$67,850$75,850
19$60,350$66,100$68,350$76,350
20$60,850$66,600$68,850$77,100
21$61,350$67,100$69,350$77,850
22$61,850$67,600$69,850$78,600
23$62,350$68,100$70,350$79,100
24$62,850$68,600$70,850$79,350
25$63,750$69,500$71,750$80,000
26$64,250$70,000$72,250$80,250
27$64,500$70,250$72,500$80,500
28$64,750$70,500$72,750$80,750
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Annual salary
$49,950
Per month (12)
$4,162.50

Worked example as rendered: Bachelors - Class 3, years of experience 0 = $49,950 a year, $4,162.50 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 $49,950 at years of experience 0 to $64,750 at years of experience 28: 28 years of experience increases worth $529 each on average, 30% in total.

The largest single increase on that column is $1,000, between years of experience 4 and years of experience 5.

A master's degree is worth $4,000 more than a bachelor's at the first years of experience (8.0%) and $5,750 more at the top of the column (8.9%).

The highest-paid column, Doctorate - Class 8, starts at $57,950 and tops out at $80,750, 25% above the top of the Bachelors - Class 3 column.

Among the 77 South Carolina district schedules indexed here, Florence 05's starting pay ranks 41st and its top cell ranks 69th; 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 46th percentile and the top cell at the 37th percentile.

Column by column

ClassFirst years of experienceTopYears of experience moves to topGrowth
Bachelors - Class 3$49,950$64,7502830%
Masters - Class 1$53,950$70,5002831%
Masters + 30 hrs - Class 7$55,450$72,7502831%
Doctorate - Class 8$57,950$80,7502839%

Against South Carolina districts of similar size

DistrictStudentsYearStartingMaster's startTop cell
Florence 051,2182025-26$49,950$53,950$80,750
Florence 021,0792025-26$48,500$52,500$84,799
Lee 011,3822025-26$48,500$52,500$78,500
Greenwood 521,4792025-26$48,500$53,267$86,068
Allendale 019282025-26$48,500$52,500$89,354
Dillon 031,5122025-26$48,500$52,500$78,500

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 05?

$49,950 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 $49,950 (Bachelors - Class 3).

What is the top of the Florence 05 salary schedule?

$80,750, 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 05 salary schedule?

On the Bachelors - Class 3 column the top figure, $64,750, 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 05?

$4,000 more at the first years of experience: $53,950 on Masters - Class 1 against $49,950 on Bachelors - Class 3 (2025-26 schedule).

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