Annual salary
$44,500
Texas · salary schedule · 2025-26
Lubbock-Cooper ISD salary schedule, 2025-26
Annual compensation plan hiring guide, teachers (2025-26). The grid below is the schedule as published, every cell; pick a column and years of experience to see the annual, monthly and per-day figure and the next five steps.
- Lubbock-Cooper ISD's 2025-26 salary schedule starts at $44,500 (New Hire Salary, years of experience 0) and tops out at $59,600 (New Hire Salary, years of experience 25), per Lubbock-Cooper Independent School District (effective ).
- The grid has 2 column columns and 26 years of experience rows; the highest cell is reached at years of experience 25.
- Lubbock-Cooper ISD enrolled 7,855 students in 2023-24, the 146th-largest district in Texas by NCES enrollment.
Annual compensation plan hiring guide, teachers (2025-26)
| Years of Experience \ Column | New Hire Salary | Teacher Retention Allotment (TRA) |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | $44,500 | $44,500 |
| 1 | $44,700 | $44,700 |
| 2 | $44,800 | $44,800 |
| 3 | $44,900 | $47,300 |
| 4 | $45,000 | $47,400 |
| 5 | $45,200 | $50,000 |
| 6 | $45,400 | $50,200 |
| 7 | $45,500 | $50,400 |
| 8 | $45,900 | $50,500 |
| 9 | $46,700 | $50,900 |
| 10 | $47,600 | $51,700 |
| 11 | $49,100 | $52,600 |
| 12 | $50,000 | $54,100 |
| 13 | $50,700 | $55,000 |
| 14 | $51,700 | $55,700 |
| 15 | $52,600 | $56,700 |
| 16 | $53,700 | $57,600 |
| 17 | $54,700 | $58,700 |
| 18 | $55,700 | $59,700 |
| 19 | $56,500 | $60,700 |
| 20 | $57,000 | $61,500 |
| 21 | $57,500 | $62,000 |
| 22 | $58,100 | $62,500 |
| 23 | $58,600 | $63,100 |
| 24 | $59,100 | $63,600 |
| 25 | $59,600 | $64,100 |
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Per month (12)
$3,708.33
Next 5 steps in this column
| Years of Experience | Salary | vs. selected |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $44,700 | +$200 |
| 2 | $44,800 | +$300 |
| 3 | $44,900 | +$400 |
| 4 | $45,000 | +$500 |
| 5 | $45,200 | +$700 |
Worked example as rendered: New Hire Salary, years of experience 0 = $44,500 a year, $3,708.33 a month spread over 12 months. Monthly and daily figures are arithmetic on the published annual cell, before any supplement, stipend or deduction.
The district publishes this schedule only as an image on its Annual Compensation page; the figures were read off that image.
The TRA column appears to be the salary including the HB2 Teacher Retention Allotment rather than the allotment alone: it equals the New Hire Salary at 0-2 years, is $2,400 higher at 3-4 years and $4,800 higher from 5 years on.
A $1,200 master's degree amount is printed at the foot of the table.
2025-26 is the most recent year published; no 2026-27 teacher schedule was on the site as of 2026-09-08.
- Soft spot: Transcribed from a PNG image, not machine-readable text.
- Soft spot: The starting salary of $44,500 is low against the rest of this batch; it is consistent with the Texas Tribune figure of $46,317 average beginning-teacher pay reported for this district in 2025.
Questions people ask
What is the starting salary on the Lubbock-Cooper ISD schedule?
$44,500 at years of experience 0 on New Hire Salary, per the 2025-26 schedule (Lubbock-Cooper Independent School District).
What is the top of the Lubbock-Cooper ISD salary schedule?
$59,600, at years of experience 25 on New Hire Salary (2025-26). That is the highest published cell before any stipend, longevity or supplement not printed on the grid.
Other Texas districts with schedules
- Sherman ISDstarts $60,000
- Texas City ISDstarts $65,500
- Edgewood Independent School District (San Antonio)starts $58,500
- Granbury Independent School Districtstarts $62,250
- Eanes ISDstarts $57,000
- Barbers Hill ISDstarts $66,500
- Longview ISDstarts $55,000
- Port Arthur ISDstarts $55,500
- Aledo ISDstarts $63,000
- Weatherford ISDstarts $58,500
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