Charter School Teacher Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

SchoolHires had 1,393 open charter school teacher listings from 117 employers on November 13, 2026.

234 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 430 in the previous 30 days.

The benefit charter school teacher listings named most often on November 13, 2026 was health insurance, in 51.3% of listings, followed by dental or vision coverage (42%).

A listing that does not mention a benefit may still offer it.

To browse the openings themselves, see all charter school teacher listings.

BLS publishes no charter school teacher-only wage, so the figure here is for elementary school teachers, except special education (SOC 25-2021), in elementary and secondary schools, the closest BLS occupation, which counts district, charter and private school teachers together because BLS has no charter school teacher code.

The median wage for that occupation was $63,980 a year in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education (SOC 25-2021), Elementary and Secondary Schools (NAICS 611100, all ownerships), May 2025).

The middle half of workers in that occupation earned $57,790 to $81,490 a year.

Employers hiring charter school teachers on SchoolHires advertise a median of $67,500 a year across 39 employers on November 13, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

New York had the most open charter school teacher listings on November 13, 2026, with 210 (15.1% of the national total).

California followed with 132 (9.5%).

117 employers had open charter school teacher listings on SchoolHires on November 13, 2026, and the five largest posted 38.3% of them.

19 employers (16.2%) had exactly one open charter school teacher listing.

About 251,000 teachers worked in public charter schools in the 2020–21 school year, against about 3,513,000 in traditional public schools (NCES National Teacher and Principal Survey 2020–21, Digest Table 209.21).

NCES counted 7,998 public charter schools in the 2022–23 school year, up from 6,079 in 2012–13 (NCES Common Core of Data, Digest Table 216.10).

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools counted 8,140 charter schools and campuses serving 3.9 million students, 7.8% of all public school students, in 2023–24; it counts campuses separately, so its total runs above the NCES school count (NAPCS Data Digest 2025).

In 2020–21, 75.3% of public charter school teachers held a regular state teaching certificate and 11.5% held no certification, against 90.9% and 1.3% of traditional public school teachers (NCES National Teacher and Principal Survey 2020–21, Digest Table 209.21).

Regular full-time charter school teachers earned an average base salary of $54,400 in the 2020–21 school year, against $62,100 in traditional public schools; NCES had published no newer figure as of October 2026 (NCES National Teacher and Principal Survey 2020–21).

Between the 2020–21 and 2021–22 school years, 81.1% of charter school teachers stayed at their school, 10.1% moved to another school and 8.8% left teaching (NCES Teacher Follow-up Survey 2021–22).

BLS projects employment of elementary school teachers (SOC 25-2021), counted across district, charter and private schools, to change by -0.4% from 2025 to 2035, from 1,419,300 to 1,413,400 jobs, with about 87,500 openings a year (BLS Employment Projections 2025–35).

For how to enter the field, see the charter school teacher career guide.

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid charter school teacher listing on SchoolHires at the time shown, and refreshed every six hours.

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all charter school teacher jobs, so read them as a picture of current hiring, not of total employment.

This page is published only while the live sample has at least 300 listings from 25 employers.

Advertised pay is the midpoint of the range an employer posts, or its single figure, and hourly and annual postings are never converted into each other.

The headline is the employer median: each employer’s own median, then the median across employers, so a group posting hundreds of openings counts once.

A pay figure needs at least 30 listings from 10 employers and is withheld when one employer posted more than half of them.

Federal figures come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the other sources listed below, quoted as published, with the year in each sentence.

BLS has no charter school teacher occupation and publishes no charter-school series, so the BLS median shown is for elementary school teachers in all elementary and secondary schools, district, charter and private together, and it is not charter pay. NCES figures come from the 2020–21 NTPS and the 2022–23 Common Core of Data, the latest NCES releases.