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York 03 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$52,000$59,000$62,500$66,000
1$52,650$59,738$63,281$66,825
2$53,308$60,484$64,072$67,660
3$53,974$61,240$64,873$68,506
4$54,649$62,006$65,684$69,362
5$55,332$62,781$66,505$70,229
6$56,024$63,566$67,336$71,107
7$56,724$64,360$68,178$71,996
8$57,433$65,165$69,030$72,896
9$58,151$65,979$69,893$73,807
10$58,878$66,804$70,767$74,730
11$59,614$67,639$71,652$75,664
12$60,359$68,485$72,547$76,610
13$61,114$69,341$73,454$77,567
14$61,878$70,207$74,372$78,537
15$62,651$71,085$75,302$79,519
16$63,434$71,973$76,243$80,513
17$64,227$72,873$77,196$81,519
18$65,030$73,784$78,161$82,538
19$65,843$74,706$79,138$83,570
20$66,666$75,640$80,127$84,614
21$67,499$76,586$81,129$85,672
22$68,343$77,543$82,143$86,743
23$69,197$78,512$83,170$87,827
24$70,062$79,494$84,209$88,925
25$70,938$80,487$85,262$90,037
26$71,825$81,493$86,328$91,162
27$72,723$82,512$87,407$92,302
28$73,632$83,544$88,500$93,455
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Annual salary
$52,000
Per month (12)
$4,333.33

Worked example as rendered: Bachelors - Class 3, years of experience 0 = $52,000 a year, $4,333.33 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 $52,000 at years of experience 0 to $73,632 at years of experience 28: 28 years of experience increases worth $773 each on average, 42% in total.

The largest single increase on that column is $909, between years of experience 27 and years of experience 28.

A master's degree is worth $7,000 more than a bachelor's at the first years of experience (13.5%) and $9,912 more at the top of the column (13.5%).

The highest-paid column, Doctorate - Class 8, starts at $66,000 and tops out at $93,455, 27% above the top of the Bachelors - Class 3 column.

Among the 77 South Carolina district schedules indexed here, York 03's starting pay ranks 12th and its top cell ranks 27th; 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 54th percentile and the top cell at the 51st percentile.

Column by column

ClassFirst years of experienceTopYears of experience moves to topGrowth
Bachelors - Class 3$52,000$73,6322842%
Masters - Class 1$59,000$83,5442842%
Masters + 30 hrs - Class 7$62,500$88,5002842%
Doctorate - Class 8$66,000$93,4552842%

Against South Carolina districts of similar size

DistrictStudentsYearStartingMaster's startTop cell
York 0316,3162025-26$52,000$59,000$93,455
Pickens 0116,2232025-26$50,600$55,600$92,444
Florence 0115,9102025-26$48,500$52,500$88,535
Lexington 0517,2782025-26$50,922$53,176$94,136
Lancaster 0115,2982025-26$50,115$55,001$92,199
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 York 03?

$52,000 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 $52,000 (Bachelors - Class 3).

What is the top of the York 03 salary schedule?

$93,455, 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 03 salary schedule?

On the Bachelors - Class 3 column the top figure, $73,632, 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 03?

$7,000 more at the first years of experience: $59,000 on Masters - Class 1 against $52,000 on Bachelors - Class 3 (2025-26 schedule).

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