Annual salary
$52,600
Texas · salary schedule · 2025-26
Seminole ISD salary schedule, 2025-26
New hire guide for 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.
- Seminole ISD's 2025-26 salary schedule starts at $52,600 (New Hire Salary, years of experience 0) and tops out at $75,650 (New Hire Salary, years of experience 30+), per Seminole ISD (effective ).
- The grid has 1 column columns and 31 years of experience rows; the highest cell is reached at years of experience 30+.
- Seminole ISD enrolled 2,986 students in 2023-24, the 270th-largest district in Texas by NCES enrollment.
New hire guide for teachers (2025-26)
| Years of Experience \ Column | New Hire Salary |
|---|---|
| 0 | $52,600 |
| 1 | $53,100 |
| 2 | $53,600 |
| 3 | $54,100 |
| 4 | $54,690 |
| 5 | $55,790 |
| 6 | $56,390 |
| 7 | $56,990 |
| 8 | $57,590 |
| 9 | $58,190 |
| 10 | $59,400 |
| 11 | $60,150 |
| 12 | $60,950 |
| 13 | $61,750 |
| 14 | $62,650 |
| 15 | $63,550 |
| 16 | $64,450 |
| 17 | $65,350 |
| 18 | $66,250 |
| 19 | $67,150 |
| 20 | $68,050 |
| 21 | $68,950 |
| 22 | $69,750 |
| 23 | $70,450 |
| 24 | $71,150 |
| 25 | $71,850 |
| 26 | $72,550 |
| 27 | $73,250 |
| 28 | $73,950 |
| 29 | $74,650 |
| 30+ | $75,650 |
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Per month (12)
$4,383.33
Next 5 steps in this column
| Years of Experience | Salary | vs. selected |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $53,100 | +$500 |
| 2 | $53,600 | +$1,000 |
| 3 | $54,100 | +$1,500 |
| 4 | $54,690 | +$2,090 |
| 5 | $55,790 | +$3,190 |
Worked example as rendered: New Hire Salary, years of experience 0 = $52,600 a year, $4,383.33 a month spread over 12 months. Monthly and daily figures are arithmetic on the published annual cell, before any supplement, stipend or deduction.
From the district's '2025-2026 Hiring Schedule and Pay Structure' packet, page 54 of 61, headed 'New Hire Guide for Teachers Model: $52,600 starting, GPI as per HB 2 ($61,200)'.
Stipends on top of the scale: general master's degree $1,000, subject-area master's degree $3,000.
Continuing classroom teachers receive an HB 2 89(R) increase of $8,000 at 5+ years, $4,000 at 3-4 years and $2,000 at 1-2 years; those amounts are not in the table above.
Salaries are for 10-month employment.
- Soft spot: The PDF is a scan with no text layer; every figure was read off the page image.
- Soft spot: This is the newest teacher schedule published on seminoleisd.net as of 2026-09-08; no 2026-27 teacher pay structure was found on the site.
- Soft spot: The packet is labelled 'Proposed Pay Structures'.
How this schedule moves
On the New Hire Salary column a teacher moves from $52,600 at years of experience 0 to $75,650 at years of experience 30+: 30 years of experience increases worth $768 each on average, 44% in total.
The largest single increase on that column is $1,210, between years of experience 9 and years of experience 10.
Among the 299 Texas district schedules indexed here, Seminole ISD's starting pay ranks 209th and its top cell ranks 190th; the state medians are $57,000 to start and $77,820 at the top.
Across all 3,959 district grids indexed nationally, that starting figure sits at the 56th percentile and the top cell at the 31st percentile.
Against Texas districts of similar size
| District | Students | Year | Starting | Master's start | Top cell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seminole ISD | 2,986 | 2025-26 | $52,600 | – | $75,650 |
| Godley ISD | 3,002 | 2026-27 | $53,350 | – | $78,336 |
| Sealy Independent School District | 3,002 | 2026-27 | $55,000.00 | – | $75,570.00 |
| Rockport-Fulton Independent School District | 2,968 | 2026-27 | $53,000 | – | $79,900 |
| Fredericksburg ISD | 3,005 | 2026-27 | $54,000 | – | $80,300 |
| Athens ISD | 3,008 | 2026-27 | $46,500 | – | $75,750 |
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 salary on the Seminole ISD schedule?
$52,600 at years of experience 0 on New Hire Salary, per the 2025-26 schedule (Seminole ISD).
What is the top of the Seminole ISD salary schedule?
$75,650, at years of experience 30+ on New Hire Salary (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 Seminole ISD salary schedule?
On the New Hire Salary column the top figure, $75,650, is reached at years of experience 30+, 30 years of experience increases after years of experience 0 (2025-26 schedule).
Other Texas districts with schedules
- Godley ISDstarts $53,350
- Sealy Independent School Districtstarts $55,000.00
- Rockport-Fulton Independent School Districtstarts $53,000
- Fredericksburg ISDstarts $54,000
- Athens ISDstarts $46,500
- San Elizario Independent School Districtstarts $59,000.00
- Columbia-Brazoria ISDstarts $57,000
- Navasota Independent School Districtstarts $52,565
- China Spring ISDstarts $46,000
- Gilmer Independent School Districtstarts $33,960
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