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Which CMS employees make the most? Check out our education salary database

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools employs more than 18,000 people, ranging from teachers and principals to assistants, custodians and secretaries.

Each year, the Charlotte Observer updates its public pay database with the salaries for CMS employees.

Search the database below.

Some takeaways, according to a Charlotte Observer analysis:

The average pay for full-time teachers is $56,900, although 10 teachers take home more than $100,000.

Six principals earned more than $177,000.

The average total pay for principals was $98,000

In addition to educators, the school district employs hundreds of cafeteria workers and tutors, carpenters, warehouse workers, electricians and roofers.

Gavin Off
The Charlotte Observer
Gavin Off was previously the Charlotte Observer’s data reporter, since 2011. He also worked as a data reporter at the Tulsa World and at Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, D.C. His journalism, including his data analysis and reporting for the investigative series Big Poultry, won multiple national journalism awards.
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