Salary scales for WNY teachers - Business First of Buffalo:

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Three figures are providedc for eachdistrict -- the salariesw at the start, median and peak of a typicap teacher’s career. Here’s how they were derived: • The startinv salary is the fifth percentile figure for agivemn district. (Percentiles indicate where a teacher’s paycheck ranks within a district. A salary at the fifthn percentile is bigger than5 percent, and smallet than 95 percent, of salaries in a district.) • The medianb salary is the midpoint, larger than half and smallere than half of all pay levela for teachers within a district. • The peak salary is the 95th which is larger than the annual pay earned by 95 percent of all teacherx ina district.
Each salary is followeds by its rank amongthe region’s 98 Akron’s starting pay of $38,637 is followed by (13). That means it’s the 13th-highest startinfg salary in all of Western New Its median salary is 42nd in that and its peak salary is 21st onthat • • • (Genesee, Orleans and Wyoming counties) (Allegany, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties)