Seattle Public Schools / Robert Eagle Staff Middle School / Secondary Teacher
Job-title file
Secondary Teacher
Plan and deliver instruction, assess student progress, and develop curriculum.
28 employees hold this title in Robert Eagle Staff Middle School. Median total compensation for the role is $150,006, above the department median of $124,285.
- Employees
- 28
- Total payroll
- $4.1M
- Role median
- $150,006
- Agency median
- $124,285
- Comparison
- Above
What the records show
Role pay distribution
Pay distribution for this role
How total compensation varies among the 28 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
Secondary Teacher pay vs. the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area
Across all employers in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area, the median wage for Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education — about 7,720 people — is $102,670. Robert Eagle Staff Middle School pays a median base salary of $116,128 for this role, 13% above that figure — about the 64th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Robert Eagle Staff Middle School sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education across every employer in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Robert Eagle Staff Middle School’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education — about 1,065,210 people — is $72,040. Robert Eagle Staff Middle School’s median base salary is 61% above that national figure, above the 90th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Robert Eagle Staff Middle School is $150,006, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare departments
This role across Seattle Public Schools
Secondary Teacher is held in 41 Seattle Public Schools departments. In Robert Eagle Staff Middle School, the median of $150,006 ranks #18 of 41.
Highest-paying departments for this role
Median total compensation for the Secondary Teacher role in other Seattle Public Schoolsdepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
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