C2+PD: This is called the promotional differential or PD. It requires 36 credits in an approved subject matter area; those 36 credits may be undergraduate, graduate, or a combination. Generally speaking, you qualify when you get your master's degree.
Here's how steps work: every year after you pass probation, for the first 6 years, your salary will increase by the advance amount. In year seven, it will increase by the job rate advance amount. After that, you are at the job rate, and you receive no more step increases unless you move to a higher salary grade.
Master's degree plus 30 hours (MA+30).
The starting salary for a teacher with a master's degree and no prior teaching experience is currently $75,017, or $66,733 for a teacher with a bachelor's degree and no previous teaching experience. On September 14, 2025, these salaries will increase to $77,455 and $68,902, respectively.
This equate date is one of two dates on which you will automatically advance to the next salary step each year (the other is on March 1).
Salaries. As of January 2025, the starting salary for new teachers with a bachelor's degree and no teaching experience is $66,733 and $75,017 for those with a master's degree. Salaries are unique for each teacher depending on their educational background and experience.
Qualifying experience for appointed employees may include both prior teaching experience and, for certain license areas, prior non-teaching experience. One term of qualifying teaching experience equals one salary step. Each year of qualifying, related non-teaching experience equals two salary steps.
NYC Public Schools offers competitive starting salaries based on education and years of teaching experience. The starting salary for a teacher with a master's degree and no prior teaching experience is currently $75,017, or $66,733 for a teacher with a bachelor's degree and no previous teaching experience.