[UPDATE] Melrose Teacher Salaries: How Do They Compare?

Editor's note: This article was updated on Thursday, May 31 at 1:45 p.m. with the most recent salary data from the 2009-2010 school year available on the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education website.

WBUR created a map showing how average teacher salaries compare across Massachusetts, and Melrose Public Schools' average K-12 teacher salary is among the lowest out of the city's neighbors in the region.

This article previously stated that Melrose had the lowest average teacher salary in the region. However, Matt Wilder, Boston Public Schools' director of media relations, pointed out on Thursday afternoon that WBUR used outdated numbers from the 2008-2009 school year in creating their map.

The most recent numbers from the 2009-2010 school year pull Melrose out of the basement and ahead of Stoneham, Reading and Arlington, although the city's average teacher salary remains among the lowest in the region.

On the map, the darker the city or town, the higher the average salary. The map can be viewed for elementary teacher salaries (red), middle school salaries (green) and high school salaries (blue).

The issue of Melrose's lower teacher salaries has come up before—during the new superintendent search and in a live chat with Mayor Rob Dolan earlier this month, when the .

Below is a chart using the most recent numbers, from the 2009-2010 school year and on the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education website, showing the average teacher salary by community in ascending order along with the municipality's expenditure per pupil from the '08-'09 school year, taken from WBUR's map.