Washington State Substitute Teacher Hires and Compensation 2022-2024

School years 2022-23 through 2023-24 data on substitute teachers in Washington state, collected by OSPI per RCW 28A.300.615. It includes counts of hires, hours worked, benefits received, compensation rates, and hiring reasons, aggregated at state, ESD, district, and local levels with demographic and geographic details.

Use Cases

• Analyze full daily compensation rate distributions across districts and demographic groups.
• Model the relationship between hours worked and benefits received under the school employees' benefits board.
• Identify patterns in the reason for hiring substitute teachers relative to years of teaching experience.
• Associate geographic location data with hiring and compensation metrics for regional analysis.

Strengths

• Data covers two complete school years (2022-23 and 2023 24).
• Includes five legislatively mandated data points per RCW 28A.300.615.
• Aggregated at multiple administrative levels: state, ESD, district, and local.
• Enriched with substitute teacher demographics, experience, and geographic location.

Limitations

• Not all districts responded to the data collection request, creating potential coverage gaps.
• Substitute teachers working in multiple districts are counted multiple times, which may inflate aggregate counts.
• Data is from the previous school year and may not reflect current conditions.

Provenance

Source

State of Washington, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI).

Collection Method

Mandated collection from school districts per RCW 28A.300.615.

Time Range

School years 2022-23 through 2023-24.

Freshness

Last updated February 2026, but data reflects the 2022-23 and 2023-24 school years.

Geography

Washington state, aggregated by Educational Service District (ESD) and school district.