Salary Of First-year Teachers (2020–2025)

Definition

The starting average first-year teacher salary is based on contracts submitted to Maine's educational union called the Maine Educational Association (MEA). The definition of starting teacher salary is the amount a district has agreed in their contract to pay a first-year teacher by with a Bachelor's Degree and no experience teaching. The average of the county is computed by averaging the contracted starting salaries by district, without regard to how many teachers were hired at that salary.

Data Source

MEA Salary Guide

Notes

The year 2024 refers to the school year 2023-2024. Not every district submitted information to the MEA for every year, so the data is based only on districts that did.

These are unweighted averages. This means that it is the average of the counties in the districts starting salaries, not the average pay of all the first-year teachers hired. For example, if a county had two districts and one hired five teachers at $60,000 each and the second school hired one teacher at $30,000, the unweighted average would ($60,000 +$30,000) divided by 2 = $45,000 and not (5* $60,000)+(1*30,000)/6 = $55,000.

Last Updated

2025-04