2026-27 · District salary guide
Kern HighTeacher salary schedule
Find your pay ↓Published bachelor’s starting pay → highest published maximum across this district’s degree lanes. Placement depends on credited experience and education.
At Kern High, published master’s starting pay is $65,429 for 2026-27.
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View the official scheduleYour pay ladder.
Find the row for your credited step, then read across to your education lane. Missing values are marked “Not published”.
Doctorate pay is not published in this schedule, so that column is left out.
| Step | Bachelor’s | Master’s |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $65,429 | $65,429 |
| 2 | $65,429 | $65,429 |
| 3 | $65,429 | $65,429 |
| 4 | $65,429 | $67,844 |
| 5 | $66,426 | $70,477 |
| 6 | $69,059 | $73,107 |
| 7 | $71,691 | $75,736 |
| 8 | $74,319 | $78,367 |
| 9 | $76,951 | $81,000 |
| 10 | $79,582 | $83,628 |
| 11 | $82,213 | $86,260 |
| 12 | $84,845 | $88,891 |
| 13 | $87,475 | $91,521 |
Salary at a glance
- Bachelor’s starting pay
- $65,429
- Master’s starting pay
- $65,429
- Bachelor’s maximum
- $87,475
- Master’s maximum
- $91,521
- Doctorate maximum
- Not published
District source · Annual amounts for 2026-27.
Schedule notes
Certificated Base Salary Schedule 1008, 10-month, effective July 1, 2026 (2% increase). High school district. Schedule has Classes I-VI, each split WITHOUT MASTERS / WITH MASTERS; this record uses Class I: bachelor = Class I without master's, master = Class I with master's (class unit thresholds are not defined on the schedule page, so higher classes are not mapped). New-teacher minimum printed as $65,429. Steps 1-13 shown; steps 14-17 exist only for Classes V-VI (qualified educational service), where Class VI with master's reaches $140,279 at step 17. Doctorate is a $4,050 stipend, not a lane (doctorate_max null). Enrollment is CDE 2025-26 Fall Census Day (rank 13).
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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: 43,356 students. Source.
Sources and last checked
- Kern High official salary schedule · Kern High
- District source and context · Kern High
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