Teachers' jobs outside their school system

This report describes the percentage of teachers who earned income from working outside their school system, whether the job was related to teaching or not, and earnings from those jobs by region.

During the 2015-16 school year, regular, full-time public school teachers were asked whether they earned additional compensation beyond their base teaching salary for working a job outside their school system. Overall, 18 percent of teachers had a job outside their school system and earned an average (mean) of $5,100. Teachers categorized these jobs as teaching or tutoring (5 percent), non-teaching but related to the teaching field (4 percent), or in another field (9 percent).

This report uses data from the 2015-16 National Teacher and Principal Survey.