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York 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$51,555$55,815$59,754$63,892
1$51,921$56,181$60,135$64,903
2$52,288$56,548$60,524$65,895
3$52,654$56,914$60,955$66,664
4$53,020$57,280$61,399$67,368
5$53,385$57,845$61,879$68,113
6$54,218$58,478$62,426$69,108
7$54,750$59,010$62,961$70,329
8$55,283$59,929$63,568$71,470
9$55,815$60,851$64,391$72,444
10$56,780$61,774$65,313$73,492
11$57,413$62,695$66,234$74,531
12$57,945$63,616$67,155$75,540
13$58,796$64,539$68,078$76,548
14$59,743$65,459$68,999$77,553
15$60,651$66,383$69,922$78,569
16$61,599$67,304$70,843$79,571
17$62,509$68,224$71,764$80,711
18$63,455$69,144$72,721$81,918
19$64,071$70,071$73,658$83,023
20$64,499$71,002$74,452$84,394
21$65,420$71,996$75,347$85,598
22$65,979$72,964$76,284$87,034
23$66,677$73,898$77,000$88,312
24$67,008$74,644$78,017$89,408
25$67,441$75,177$78,499$90,049
26$67,973$75,709$79,032$90,699
27$68,339$76,075$79,528$91,249
28$68,706$76,442$79,964$91,740
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Annual salary
$51,555
Per month (12)
$4,296.25

Worked example as rendered: Bachelors - Class 3, years of experience 0 = $51,555 a year, $4,296.25 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 $51,555 at years of experience 0 to $68,706 at years of experience 28: 28 years of experience increases worth $613 each on average, 33% in total.

The largest single increase on that column is $965, between years of experience 9 and years of experience 10.

A master's degree is worth $4,260 more than a bachelor's at the first years of experience (8.3%) and $7,736 more at the top of the column (11.3%).

The highest-paid column, Doctorate - Class 8, starts at $63,892 and tops out at $91,740, 34% above the top of the Bachelors - Class 3 column.

Among the 77 South Carolina district schedules indexed here, York 01's starting pay ranks 19th and its top cell ranks 36th; 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 53rd percentile and the top cell at the 49th percentile.

Column by column

ClassFirst years of experienceTopYears of experience moves to topGrowth
Bachelors - Class 3$51,555$68,7062833%
Masters - Class 1$55,815$76,4422837%
Masters + 30 hrs - Class 7$59,754$79,9642834%
Doctorate - Class 8$63,892$91,7402844%

Against South Carolina districts of similar size

DistrictStudentsYearStartingMaster's startTop cell
York 014,9932025-26$51,555$55,815$91,740
Laurens 555,2062025-26$48,500$52,500$88,500
Colleton 014,7772025-26$48,500$52,500$86,539
Chester 014,5902025-26$52,055$56,315$91,600
Spartanburg 015,4172025-26$49,590$55,326$93,209
Clarendon 064,2442025-26$49,000$52,500$86,500

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 York 01?

$51,555 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 $51,555 (Bachelors - Class 3).

What is the top of the York 01 salary schedule?

$91,740, 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 York 01 salary schedule?

On the Bachelors - Class 3 column the top figure, $68,706, 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 York 01?

$4,260 more at the first years of experience: $55,815 on Masters - Class 1 against $51,555 on Bachelors - Class 3 (2025-26 schedule).

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