Queen Creek Unified School DistrictTeacher salary schedule

Your pay ladder.

How pay works here: Pay is a base salary plus a formula: experience credit for initial placement, per-credit graduate coursework pay and flat degree add-ons; there are no lanes or steps.

Open the official schedule for the full details.

Salary at a glance

Bachelor’s starting pay

$56,125

Master’s starting pay

Not published

Bachelor’s maximum

$80,000

Master’s maximum

Not published

Doctorate maximum

Not published

District source · Annual amounts for 2026-27.

Schedule notes

Certified Staff Salary Schedule 2026-2027 (dated 6-16-26), one-page text PDF. Base salary $56,125 for Teacher (listed with Elementary Reading and Math Interventionist rows) and $59,300 for Secondary Math Teacher; maximum salary $80,000 for both rows, so bachelor_max records the stated $80,000 cap (it is not specific to a degree lane). Initial placement experience credit: $500/yr for years 1-5, $2,500 + $200/yr above 5, $3,500 + $100/yr above 10. Master's degree adds $1,000 and doctorate adds $1,000 (add-ons, not lanes), graduate credits $80 each (recent) or $65, National Board $2,000, performance pay $500. Math teachers new to the district get an extra $6,000 base or salary match. Master and doctorate starts and maxes are null because no lane salary is posted. Enrollment is the figure from allk12.com's Arizona largest-districts ranking (NCES-based; school year not stated on the page), used because the ADE October 1 LEA file could not be fetched.

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Experience credit and education requirements are set by the district. Check the official schedule for contract length, supplements and rules for moving between lanes. These base amounts are not take-home pay.

Reported district enrollment: 15,065 students. Source.

Sources and last checked

• Queen Creek Unified School District official salary schedule · Queen Creek Unified School District
• District source and context · Queen Creek Unified School District

Last verified 2026-11-03