SALARY · SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS, SHORT-TERM · PENNSYLVANIA

Substitute Teachers, Short-Term salary in Pennsylvania

Salary talk gets noisy fast, so I try to keep it plain. In Pennsylvania, substitute teachers, short-term earned a median of $44,870 a year. From there, this page walks through the range, the hourly rate, how many people do the job here, and what stays in your pocket after federal tax and FICA.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$44,870

$22 per hour at the median · That is $3,200 (7.7 percent) above the national median of $41,670 for this occupation.

$44,920Mean annual salary
$22Mean hourly wage
$22,360People employed in this job in Pennsylvania

Salary range

25th: $35,920Median: $44,87075th: $47,710
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$35,920
Median (50th percentile)$44,870
75th percentile$47,710
Mean$44,920

The middle half of workers earned from $35,920 to $47,710 a year. Employment size matters too. A field with many workers in a state usually means more openings and more room to move employers without moving states. A small field can pay well but offer fewer ways in.

What stays in your pocket on the median salary

ESTIMATED TAKE-HOME PAY

$36,856 a year
$3,071 a month
Federal tax $3,204 · FICA $3,433 · State tax $1,378

Caveat: the $0 deduction point for Pennsylvania was corroborated from a secondary host of the 2025 booklet, not from a pa.gov page.

Pennsylvania local earned income tax and the Philadelphia wage tax are separate and are not in this figure.

Read this before you use the take-home figure. It is a single-filer estimate using the 2026 standard deduction. It leaves out credits, other deductions, local taxes, and retirement or health deductions. Your actual paycheck can differ, and for states without a verified 2026 table in this build, state tax is still to be added once its table is verified.

Same job, other states

Other jobs in Pennsylvania

Try your own salary in the paycheck calculator