Educator pay for 2020-2021 as reported to the Kentucky Department of Education.
Teachers, principals and superintendents in northeastern Kentucky are largely paid below average for the state of Kentucky.
Taking into account the ability of larger metropolitan areas to create outliers and skew averages, when the median is taken into consideration, local schools still trend lower than the rest, but the disparity isn t as large.
The Kentucky Department of Education lists 171 public school districts in the state. County school districts make up 120 districts with 51 independent school districts scattered across the state.
The Daily Independent looked at available data from the Department of Education for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years. Data reveals the superintendentsâ pay as reported by the district as well as district averages for teachers and principals. These numbers and rankings do not include private or charter schools.
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