Public Educator Salaries by School District and Experience

Data from data.delaware.gov provides average salaries for full-time education staff, broken down by federal, state, and local funding sources. It includes metrics on years of experience, age, and full-time equivalent positions aggregated at state, district, and school levels. The dataset was last updated in February 2025.

Use Cases

• Analyze salary disparities across Job Classification and Staff Type using Average Total Salary, Average State Salary, and Average Local Salary.
• Model the relationship between Average Years of Experience and Average Total Salary across different District and Grade levels.
• Assess demographic representation by cross-referencing Race, Gender, and SpecialDemo columns with Educators (FTE) counts.
• Track compensation trends over time by analyzing Average Federal Salary and Average Total Salary across School Year.

Strengths

• Contains granular breakdowns of salary components: Average Federal Salary, Average State Salary, Average Local Salary.
• Aggregated at multiple geographic levels: School, District, and State via Geography column.
• Includes demographic and experience metrics: Average Years of Experience, Average Years of Age, Race, Gender.

Limitations

• Sample size and row count are unknown, limiting assessment of statistical power.
• Potential for missing data or inconsistencies across the many categorical columns like SubGroup and SpecialDemo.

Provenance

Source

data.delaware.gov

Freshness

Last updated on 2025-02-13.

Geography

State of Delaware, based on source domain and District/State-level aggregation.