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

SchoolHires had 950 open private school teacher listings from 164 employers on November 13, 2026.

213 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 352 in the previous 30 days.

The benefit private school teacher listings named most often on November 13, 2026 was health insurance, in 38.2% of listings, followed by dental or vision coverage (34.7%).

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

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

BLS publishes no private 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 public and private school teachers together because BLS has no private 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 private school teachers on SchoolHires advertise a median of $55,000 a year across 46 employers on November 13, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

For pay by state, percentile and experience, see the private school teacher salary guide.

Texas had the most open private school teacher listings on November 13, 2026, with 148 (15.6% of the national total).

California followed with 85 (8.9%).

To browse the openings in one state, start with private school teacher openings in Texas.

164 employers had open private school teacher listings on SchoolHires on November 13, 2026, and the five largest posted 36.7% of them.

74 employers (45.1%) had exactly one open private school teacher listing.

In the 2021–22 school year, the latest covered by the NCES Private School Universe Survey, 29,727 private K–12 schools in the U.S. employed 482,571 full-time-equivalent teachers and enrolled 4,731,303 students (NCES PSS 2021–22).

The same 2021–22 survey counted 526,416 private school teachers by headcount, of whom 80.8% (425,569) worked full time (NCES PSS 2021–22).

In privately owned elementary and secondary schools alone, BLS counted 159,700 elementary school teachers (SOC 25-2021) on payroll in May 2025, with a median annual wage of $58,140 (BLS OEWS, industry 611105).

Regular full-time private school teachers earned an average base salary of $46,400 in the 2020–21 school year, against $62,100 in traditional public schools, and 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, 11.7% of private school teachers left teaching and 6.4% moved to another school (NCES Teacher Follow-up Survey 2021–22).

BLS projects employment of elementary school teachers (SOC 25-2021), counted across public 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 the private school teacher shortage, see our analysis.

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

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid private 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 private 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.

Catholic, Christian, Jewish day school, Montessori, classical, Waldorf and boarding school teacher listings are counted with this role. BLS has no private school teacher occupation, so the BLS median shown is for elementary school teachers in all elementary and secondary schools, public and private together; middle and high school teacher codes run a little higher. NCES figures cover private schools only and come from the 2021–22 PSS and the 2020–21 NTPS, the latest NCES releases.