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Salary by Country
Secondary School Teachers Salary by Country
The US median for secondary school teachers is $72,040. Below, the PPP-adjusted equivalent across 13 markets, modelled from US BLS data with OECD wage ratios and live exchange rates.
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What the secondary school teachers salary does not tell you
Salary measures what the market pays secondary school teachers today. It says nothing about how durable that pay is as AI reshapes the work. Secondary School Teachers currently sit at 17/100 on the AI exposure scale, in the low exposure band. A well-paid role can still be highly exposed: the question is which layer of the work you occupy.
The country differences below are wage-level effects, not exposure differences. AI compresses the same routine layer of secondary school teachers work in every market. To see where your own position sits and what shifts it, run the free structural reading or model the dimensions in the simulator.
13 markets
Secondary School Teachers salary across countries
Median annual pay and the typical 10th-to-90th-percentile range, shown in each market's local currency.
| Country | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|
| United States (source) | $72,040 | $48,780 to $107,600 |
| United Kingdom | £37,300 | £25,300 to £55,700 |
| Canada | $75,000 | $50,800 to $112,100 |
| Australia | $76,800 | $52,000 to $114,700 |
| Ireland | €49,100 | €33,200 to €73,300 |
| New Zealand | $72,700 | $49,200 to $108,600 |
| Germany | 46.600 € | 31.600 € to 69.700 € |
| France | 41 700 € | 28 300 € to 62 300 € |
| Netherlands | € 55.200 | € 37.400 to € 82.500 |
| Singapore | $75,200 | $50,900 to $112,300 |
| Japan | ￥6,811,700 | ￥4,612,300 to ￥10,174,000 |
| South Africa | R 404,800 | R 274,100 to R 604,600 |
| India | ₹12,40,200 | ₹8,39,800 to ₹18,52,400 |
US figures are BLS OEWS survey data. All other countries are PPP-adjusted estimates, derived from the US median via OECD average-wage ratios and live exchange rates. They indicate purchasing-power-style equivalents, not surveyed local salaries.
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