How Much Does The Average Summit Teacher Make? Find Out Below:

SUMMIT, NJ — Summit Public School District ranked high on Niche's "2023 Best Places To Teach in New Jersey" ranking that was recently released.

While teacher salary is far from the only factor that makes a school district a great place to teach, it certainly matters. Summit ranked as the 17th best school district to work in, with its teachers making an average of $77,646 per year.

Many of the districts that made the top 20 on this list are located in affluent New Jersey communities, having an average educator salary of $75,000 or higher.

Millburn Township School District ranked #1, with an average teaching salary of $87,061 and Livingston School District followed at #2, with an average salary of $86,615.

Summit was ranked the second highest paying public school district in Union County, trailing behind Berkeley Heights Public School District, which was ranked #12.

Niche is a website known for its extensive rankings of schools, universities and communities and the platform's methodology incorporates several factors, such as a school district's overall Niche grade, resources and facilities and student-teacher ratio.

But 30 percent of Niche's calculations include each district's average teacher salary and teacher salary index — the average teacher salary normalized by median household income by county.

The median public-school teacher salary in the state last year totaled $74,186, according to the New Jersey Department of Education. But Patch's data analysis found major disparities by type of school and by district. (The state's data included median salary, while Niche's evaluations use average-salary data from the U.S. Department of Education.)

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Here is Niche's full ranking of the "best NJ districts," along with their average teacher salaries:

1. Millburn Township School District, $87,061
2. Livingston Board of Education School District, $86,615
3. West Essex Regional School District, $83,593
4. North Valley Regional High School District, $91,517
5. Pansack Valley Regional High School District, $99,322
6. Princeton Public Schools, $89,076
7. Ridgewood Public School District, $89,201
8. Mountain Lakes School District, $95,062
9. West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District, $78,101
10. Hopewell Valley Regional School District, $84,083
11. Margate City School District, $91,722
12. Berkeley Heights Public School District, $84,875
13. Pompton Lakes School District, $85,604
14. Edison Township School District, $85,993
15. Moorestown Township Public School District, $77,983
16. Glen Ridge Public School District, $86,236
17. Summit Public School District, $77,646
18. South Brunswick School District, $80,048
19. Morris Hills Regional School District, $86,897
20. Tenafly Public School District, $87,898
21. Ocean City School District, $92,453
22. Old Bridge Township School District, $85,038
23. West Orange Public Schools, $90,003
24. Southern Regional School District, $84,385
25. Little Falls Township Public Schools, $69,877

This story features reporting by Patch editor Josh Bakan.

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