It is easy to look at average teacher salaries in other districts/states and conclude that teachers who receive a higher salary always live a comfortable life.
But I recently discovered an article published in the The Mercury News shows how public school teachers in California’s Bay Area are priced out of the housing market – big time. The following are average teacher salaries and median home prices in each district:
Cupertino Union — average teacher salary $78,280
Cupertino — $1,625,000
Sunnyvale — $1,040,000
San Jose — $700,000
Fremont Unified — average teacher salary $83,968
Fremont — $760,000
Mount Diablo Unified — average teacher salary $67,920
Concord — $437,250
Pleasant Hill — $569,000
Oakland Unified — average teacher salary $58,033
Oakland — $520,000
San Ramon Valley Unified — average teacher salary $71,080
Danville — $1,040,000
San Ramon — $862,000
West Contra Costa Unified — average teacher salary $59,503
Richmond — $322,500
El Cerrito — $710,750
Hercules — $440,000
