Which school districts in New Jersey offer the highest salaries to teachers? A local platform calculated median salaries throughout the state. For context, higher salaries can lead to higher retention of teachers: in Lakewood, where the median salary is $64,647, 20% of teachers leave each year. This rate of turnover is typically bad for students.

Here are the 25 districts that offer the highest median salaries in the state:

Northern Valley Regional (Bergen): $117,410

Pascack Valley Regional (Bergen): $111,723

Jersey City (Hudson): $104, 130

Hackensack (Bergen): $103,126

High Point Regional (Sussex): $102,638

Lenape Regional (Burlington): $102,450

Morris Hill Regional (Morris): $102,355

Wallkill Valley Regional (Sussex): $101,657

River Vale (Bergen): $101,490

Brigantine (Atlantic): $100,351

Millburn (Essex): $99,610

Passaic County Vo-Tech (Passaic): $99,487

Cresskill (Bergen): $99,153

Lower Cape May Regional (Cape May: $98,760

East Orange (Essex): $98,381

West Orange (Essex): $98,058

Edison (Middlesex): $97,922

Ocean City (Cape May): $97,084

Mainland Regional (Atlantic): $96,721

Ventnor City (Atlantic): $96,675

Mercer Special Services (Mercer): $96,632

Freehold Regional (Monmouth): $96,520

Princeton Regional (Mercer): $96,425

Ridgewood (Bergen): $96,342

River Dell Regional (Bergen): $96,189