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Ridgewood NJ, According to the Taxpayer Guide to Education the median teacher salary in Ridgewood was $78,318 this year down from $81,403 down 3,80%. Placing Ridgewood Schools somewhere in the middle of the pack.
Taxpayer Guide to Education says New Jersey school districts range from a high of more than $95,000 to a low of about $41,000 .
The guide ranked Northern Valley Regional, a neighboring regional high school district in Bergen County, has the highest median teacher salary, $95,418 while East Newark Borough, a small district that doesn’t have a high school, has the lowest, $40,922.
The pay data, released as part of the state’s annual Taxpayer’s Guide to Education Spending. The guide lists the median salary in each school district and each charter school.
The guide classifies the median salary is the salary in the middle of the payroll, meaning that half of the teachers in a district make more than that figure and the other half make less. Unlike superintendent pay, New Jersey has no restrictions on teachers’ salaries.
