School district · Florida · LEAID 1201560
Pinellas
Pinellas spends $14,718 per pupil, in the highest third among comparable Florida districts with a reliable figure. Per-pupil spending, enrollment, and budget for Pinellas come from the NCES Common Core of Data F-33 finance survey (FY2023).
- $64,513
- Est. avg teacher salary
- $14,718
- Per-pupil spending
- 93,702
- Students enrolled
- 79th
- Pct. in FL
Above benchmark
Pinellas spends $14,718 per pupil, in the highest third among comparable Florida districts with a reliable figure. Estimated average teacher salary is $64,513, below the national average of $70,245, serving 93,702 students (NCES CCD F-33, FY2023).
- High per-pupil spending: Pinellas spends $14,718 per pupil, in the highest third among comparable Florida districts with a reliable figure.
- 79th percentile for Florida
- 47th percentile nationally
- 29% of spending reaches instructional salaries
- Florida ranks #39 of 49 on the salary estimate and #3 of 49 on enrollment in the same reliable-district pool.
- Pinellas ranks #14 of 67 Florida districts by estimated teacher salary and #17 of 67 by per-pupil spending. Monroe pay #1 at $75,623 is not Bradford spending #1 at $25,600 per pupil
- +17.4% estimated-basis panel FY2019→FY2023 (not applied to the FTE figure above)
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LEAID 1201560 · NCES CCD F-33 FY2023
Pinellas F-33 compensation desk
FY2023: $64,513 estimated average teacher salary · P79 in Florida · P47 nationally · 29% instructional salary share. Nearest salary peer: Miami-dade (+$125est. salary).
Salary neighbourhood chart for Pinellas
Salary neighbourhood · Pinellas
Pinellas already leads most of its in-state peer set; the chart plots it against the top and bottom pay poles for context (NCES F-33 FY2023, not a full state reprint).
- Sumter · low pole
Sumter · low pole
$39,249 est. salary
- Orange · near
Orange · near
$64,026 est. salary
- Pinellas
Pinellas · this district
$64,513 est. salary
- Miami-dade · near
Miami-dade · near
$64,637 est. salary
- Walton · near
Walton · near
$65,109 est. salary
- Charlotte · top pay
Charlotte · top pay
$75,270 est. salary
Appropriate use & corrections
National salary distribution for Pinellas
Pinellas's estimated salary vs. every US district
NCES F-33 estimate, reliable-salary districts only
$64,513 47th percentile higher than 47% of 10,684 US districts
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Each bar is a $10K-wide band; taller bars hold more US districts. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source NCES CCD F-33 Finance Survey, FY2023 · FY2023
Pinellas in Florida's upper-third pay band
Same 67 districts with a usable salary and a comparable per-pupil figure (NCES F-33 FY2023)
- Monroe
Monroe
$75,623 est. avg salary
- Pinellas
Pinellas
$64,513 est. avg salary
- Bradford
Bradford
$58,377 est. avg salary
What this shows Pinellas ranks #14 of 67 Florida districts by estimated teacher salary and #17 of 67 by per-pupil spending. Monroe pay #1 at $75,623 is not Bradford spending #1 at $25,600 per pupil
The same districts by per-pupil spending
Pinellas is marked; a high spending bar is not a high pay bar
- Bradford
Bradford
$25,600 per pupil
- Monroe
Monroe
$20,972 per pupil
- Pinellas
Pinellas
$14,718 per pupil
What this shows Bradford leads spending at $25,600 per pupil; Monroe leads pay.
What stands out about Pinellas
- Estimated teacher pay here rose +17.4% between FY2019 and FY2023, outpacing Florida's statewide +11.0% by 6.4 points, a growth rate faster than 75% of the 67 Florida districts with a comparable FY2019 baseline.
- Enrolment fell from 100,948 to 93,702 students (7.2% down) across FY2019–FY2023 while the instructional salary pool per teacher went up. Districts on that path are usually holding staffing steady against a falling roll, which lifts the per-teacher figure without anyone getting a raise, so read this page's salary estimate alongside the enrolment line rather than on its own.
- With 93,702 students, it is the 29th-largest school district by enrollment among the 13,149 US districts reporting enrollment data.
- A district of this scale typically enrolls more students than several entire states' worth of smaller districts combined, which is part of why the per-pupil and per-teacher figures here should be read as an aggregate across many schools rather than a single-campus estimate.
- Its total annual revenue of $1.33B puts it among just 50 US districts operating a budget of this size or larger, out of the 13,149 districts in the NCES CCD F-33 survey, a scale that brings dedicated budget offices, multi-year capital planning, and district-wide procurement contracts that a small district's single-person business office cannot replicate.
Scale composition for Pinellas
Pinellas enrolls 93,702 students (0.20% of the 46,412,683 students across 13,149 US districts that report enrollment in the NCES CCD F-33 survey). Only 88 districts clear the 50,000-student threshold used here - sparse districts in the 500-5,000 band cannot show a national-share read of this kind because their headcount is too small for the percentage to mean anything. Total annual revenue is $1.33B, putting it among 50 districts at this budget scale or larger.
Reported teacher FTE is 5,804, about 16.1 students per teacher (mega-cohort median 16.0; denser staffing than 42 of the 87 mega-districts with a usable FTE count, rank 45th densest) . At this enrollment the ratio is an aggregate across many campuses, so a single-school class-size story is the wrong read - use it to place Pinellas among other large systems, not against a 1,000-student district whose FTE is a handful of classrooms.
Instructional salaries take 29% of total expenditure on a $1.38B budget . Large systems carry central offices, transportation, and facilities lines that dilute the classroom share relative to a small district whose budget is almost entirely payroll - comparing that percentage across the enrollment cliff without this scale note misreads both ends.
Nearest mega-district peers by enrollment (same 50k+ cohort):
| District | Enrollment | Est. avg salary | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Diego Unified · California | 93,694 | $147,163 | $2.99B |
| Katy ISD · Texas | 92,667 | $64,100 | $1.33B |
| DeKalb County · Georgia | 92,368 | $74,911 | $1.79B |
| Jefferson County · Kentucky | 95,171 | $73,395 | $1.99B |
| Prince William County Public Schools · Virginia | 91,101 | $81,008 | $1.74B |
Florida prices absorb part of this salary
- Nominal district estimate
- $64,512.805
- Florida price level
- 103.6 / 100
- National-price equivalent
- $62,249
The FY2023 salary estimate shown in the hero.
BEA all-items regional price parity; 100 is the U.S. average.
-4% versus the nominal figure.
Prices in Florida run above the national average, so this salary has roughly the buying power of the national-price equivalent above. Comparing it with a district in a cheaper state without this adjustment overstates its relative value.
Regional price parity: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2023 all-items RPP by state. The adjustment applies a statewide index to a district figure, so it captures how Florida compares nationally, not how this district compares with others in its own state. Compare every state on this basis.
How this salary figure is calculated
Full NCES reading for Pinellas
What the Numbers Say About Pinellas
Pinellas is a large urban school district in Florida, serving 93,702 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $14,718. Estimated average teacher salary, derived from reported teacher salary expenditure (F-33 items Z35-Z38) divided by teacher FTE, is $64,513, placing the district in the moderately funded tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 1201560 references the FY2023 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.
Relative to the Florida statewide average of $57,863, teacher pay in Pinellas runs meaningfully above the state benchmark, a 11.5% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $70,245 (8.2% differential). Among enrolling districts in Florida, it pays more than 79% of them. Florida itself ranks #39 of 49 nationally on average teacher compensation, which shapes the funding ceiling districts operate under.
On the budget side, Pinellas reports $1379.1M in total expenditure against $1327.3M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 29% of spending, a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $267.7M, special-education teacher pay is $75.1M.
How does Pinellas compare?
Estimated average teacher salary versus a peer district, the Florida average, and the national average. Pick any in-state district to compare.
Pinellas pays -0.2% less than Miami-dade · per-pupil $14,718 vs $14,460
Derived from NCES F-33 teacher salary expenditure (Z35-Z38) and CCD Staff Universe teacher FTE (FY2023); a small minority use the documented fallback. Unreliable service entities are excluded.
Data-derived comparison paths
Find comparable Florida districts
Miami-dade is Pinellas's nearest match on both pay and per-pupil investment, which is uncommon: the two signals point at different districts for roughly 98% of districts. These are not simply nearby districts: each group is selected from the same NCES FY2023 dataset using a matching salary or per-pupil-investment signal and a comparable enrollment range.
Similar estimated teacher pay
Similar per-pupil investment
Out-of-state districts near Pinellas's enrollment scale
Two out-of-state peer sets for Pinellas: closest on enrollment (93,702 students here) and closest on estimated average teacher salary ($64,513 here). Rows stay link-disjoint so each axis is a distinct neighborhood.
Similar enrollment
Nearest other districts by NCES student count (floored at ≥200).
Similar estimated salary
Nearest other districts by F-33-derived average teacher salary, distinct from the enrollment row.
Enrollment and salaries from NCES CCD F-33; estimated teacher pay can diverge widely at the same student count because of state funding, cost of living, and local bargaining.
Revenue & Expenditure
Instructional Salary by Program
The teacher salaries behind this page's average are the ones NCES reports for 4 programs in Pinellas: the regular program, special education, vocational programs and other programs. Every program category NCES breaks out separately carries a figure here. Together they are 92% of everything the district spends on instructional salaries; the other 8% pays instructional aides, paraprofessionals, substitutes and other instructional staff who are not counted as teachers here.
Florida Teacher Pay Overview
The highest average among comparably sized Florida districts belongs to Monroe at $75,623. Pinellas sits in the upper quarter of that field at 14 of 67, nearer the ceiling than the floor. Because Florida prices run above the national average, this salary is worth less than the same number elsewhere; Alaska and Connecticut are the states it can be compared with directly on BEA's price parity.
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Large-district sample from 66 Florida peers with reliable NCES data; bar length shows pay magnitude within this slice.
This is a sample of 6 from 66 Florida districts with enrollment and salary data reliable enough to compare in the NCES CCD F-33 survey.
Frequently Asked Questions about Pinellas
What is the average teacher salary in Pinellas?
The average teacher salary in Pinellas is $64,513 (NCES CCD FY2023), from reported teacher salary expenditure (F-33 items Z35-Z38) divided by the district's reported teacher headcount (NCES CCD Staff Universe Survey).
How does Pinellas teacher pay compare to the Florida average?
Pinellas pays 11.5% more than the Florida state average of $57,863. The district's average is $64,513.
How does Pinellas teacher pay compare to the national average?
Pinellas pays 8.2% below the national average of $70,245. The district average is $64,513.
What is the per-pupil spending in Pinellas?
Pinellas spends approximately $14,718 per student annually (NCES FY2023), covering instructional salaries, support services, and administration.
What percentage of Pinellas's budget goes to teacher salaries?
Instructional salaries account for 29% of Pinellas's total expenditure of $1379.1M (NCES FY2023).
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