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Richland 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$50,100$54,677$56,420$59,326
1$50,700$55,277$57,020$59,926
2$51,241$56,221$57,927$61,223
3$51,510$56,399$58,326$61,867
4$51,643$56,671$58,634$62,277
5$51,775$56,942$58,941$62,674
6$51,908$57,214$59,248$63,061
7$52,041$57,486$59,557$64,544
8$52,174$57,758$60,695$66,032
9$53,242$58,221$61,839$67,518
10$54,266$59,173$62,976$69,028
11$55,330$60,309$64,122$70,549
12$56,360$61,458$65,265$72,074
13$57,428$62,598$66,406$73,596
14$58,454$63,744$67,554$75,121
15$59,525$64,884$68,694$76,643
16$60,556$66,029$69,834$78,168
17$61,615$67,170$70,974$79,691
18$62,643$68,314$72,121$81,216
19$63,712$69,454$73,262$82,737
20$64,733$70,599$74,406$84,260
21$65,279$71,707$75,562$85,512
22$65,826$72,339$76,218$86,277
23$66,696$73,603$77,524$87,682
24$67,338$74,345$78,308$88,587
25$67,988$75,095$79,102$89,500
26$67,988$75,095$79,102$89,500
27$68,572$75,341$79,388$90,319
28$68,572$75,341$79,388$90,319
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Annual salary
$50,100
Per month (12)
$4,175.00

Worked example as rendered: Bachelors - Class 3, years of experience 0 = $50,100 a year, $4,175.00 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 $50,100 at years of experience 0 to $68,572 at years of experience 27: 27 years of experience increases worth $684 each on average, 37% in total.

The largest single increase on that column is $1,071, between years of experience 14 and years of experience 15.

2 of the 28 years of experience moves on that column carry no increase: the schedule prints the same figure for consecutive years of experiences.

A master's degree is worth $4,577 more than a bachelor's at the first years of experience (9.1%) and $6,769 more at the top of the column (9.9%).

The highest-paid column, Doctorate - Class 8, starts at $59,326 and tops out at $90,319, 32% above the top of the Bachelors - Class 3 column.

Among the 77 South Carolina district schedules indexed here, Richland 01's starting pay ranks 36th and its top cell ranks 41st; 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 47th percentile and the top cell at the 48th percentile.

Column by column

ClassFirst years of experienceTopYears of experience moves to topGrowth
Bachelors - Class 3$50,100$68,5722737%
Masters - Class 1$54,677$75,3412738%
Masters + 30 hrs - Class 7$56,420$79,3882741%
Doctorate - Class 8$59,326$90,3192752%

Against South Carolina districts of similar size

DistrictStudentsYearStartingMaster's startTop cell
Richland 0122,1232025-26$50,100$54,677$90,319
Beaufort 0121,4892025-26$60,087$66,287$110,198
Aiken 0123,1032025-26$51,567$56,842$101,072
York 0418,3962025-26$52,500$55,500$98,418
Dorchester 0226,5472025-26$51,500$56,576$99,186
Lexington 0517,2782025-26$50,922$53,176$94,136

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 Richland 01?

$50,100 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 $50,100 (Bachelors - Class 3).

What is the top of the Richland 01 salary schedule?

$90,319, 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 Richland 01 salary schedule?

On the Bachelors - Class 3 column the top figure, $68,572, is reached at years of experience 27, 27 years of experience increases after years of experience 0 (2025-26 schedule).

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

$4,577 more at the first years of experience: $54,677 on Masters - Class 1 against $50,100 on Bachelors - Class 3 (2025-26 schedule).

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