PlainTeacher research ranks states and districts from the NCES F-33 FY2023 finance census (13,149 districts across 51 jurisdictions; 10,684 pass the reliable-salary filter), answering one salary or spending question per study.
13,149
F-33 districts
10,684
reliable salary rows
51
jurisdictions
4
published studies
Studies below answer one ranking or release-delta question each from the live F-33 extract; they are descriptive finance summaries, not career or compensation advice.
The source publishes each release as a standalone snapshot. This is the difference between the last two, over a balanced panel of districts reporting in both years, with the reporting artifacts named and excluded rather than ranked.
PlainTeacher ranks the 50 US states plus the District of Columbia by district-population-weighted average instructional-staff salary as published in the National Center for Education Statistics F-33 fiscal series.
PlainTeacher ranks the 13,138 US public-school districts represented in the NCES Common Core of Data by district average teacher salary, filtered to districts with non-trivial enrollment to exclude single-school administrative entities.