Wellesley Public Schools: Fiscal Year 2026 Budget
Employees who are hired at step 1 through 15 advance one (1) step for each completed year of employment until they reach step 16, our top step. While employees are progressing through these steps, there is a greater impact on the budget. A Unit A member advancing a step in fiscal year 2026 will earn an additional 7.17% while an employee on top step with earn an additional 3.00% since all steps have been equalized at 4.17% across the salary table. The steps have a significant fiscal impact on the district.
Below is a table of the average teacher’s salary for the past five years: FY’19 FY’20 FY’21
FY’22
FY’23
Average Salary $93,414 $98,614 $104,201 $99,937 $107,527 $87,151 $90,520 $103,976 $79,634 $95,162 $85,701 $94,719 $97,121 $97,301 $100,873 $80,240
Average Salary
Average Salary
Average Salary
Average Salary
District
Rank
Rank
Rank
Rank
Rank
Belmont Brookline Carlisle Concord
11
$96,334 10 $101,061 8 $107,286
6
$102,108 10 $116,550 3 $111,573 5 $108,529 8 $119,751 1 $98,594 12 $112,841 4 $93,965 15 $96,996 13 N/A $99,291 11 $105,093 9 $111,109 6 $109,832 7
6 2 5 1
$100,041 9 $104,270 5 $107,852 2 $110,665 1 $92,678 13 $93,180 11 $107,460 3 $81,434 16 $92,960 12 $88,804 14 $100,633 8 $102,292 6 $101,508 7 $105,960 4 $85,916 15
$101,158 7 $104,268 $110,836 4 $107,167 $108,511 5 $112,701 $117,960 1 $117,148 $94,513 12 $98,097 $92,894 14 $98,108 $113,571 2 $111,494 $84,410 16 $89,880 $98,388 11 $97,996 $93,031 13 $96,810 $100,892 9 $105,586 $105,651 6 $106,531 $100,778 10 $108,007 $110,901 3 $114,171 $89,442 15 $91,343
10
7 3 1
Concord Carlisle
Lexington
13 12
12 11
Lincoln
Lincoln Sudbury
3
4
Natick
16
16 13 14
Needham Newton Sudbury Wayland Wellesley Weston Winchester
9
14 10
9 8 5 2
8 7 4
$118,748 10
2
15
15
$96,288 14
State Average 11 $89,576 As the table indicates, Wellesley’s average teacher salary is competitive with our comparable communities. Wellesley has approximately 57.08% of the faculty positions at the top step in their salary lane. The distribution of staff and related changes proposed as part of the FY’26 Budget is described in more detail in Appendix A: Salary Development. Class Size Guidelines $82,379 $84,638 $87,108 $90,784
School committee policy JG: Student Enrollment and School Assignment provides class size guidelines at the elementary and secondary levels that represent the target range of students enrolled in individual classrooms. The table below provides a historical view of our class sizes compared to the policy guidelines.
10 The data reported on the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MA DESE) web site is an average teacher salary of $136,001 in Weston. In reviewing the data with Weston, they noted an error in the number of teachers listed of 151 to 173. The average teacher salary has been revised based on the data provided by Weston. 11 Source: Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MA DESE) web site.
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