Danbury is a small city located 60 miles southwest of Hartford and 70 miles northeast of New York City. Founded in the 17th Century, Danbury is the former hat capital of the United States. It was once home to the Great Danbury Fair that has since been replaced by the Danbury Fair Mall, the largest shopping mall in Connecticut. Today, the city has a population of about 75,000 people.
According to the BLS, as of 2010, the average kindergarten teacher in North Carolina had an annual salary of $41,760. Elementary teachers earn slightly more with an annual take home pay of $43,200, while middle school teachers earn an average salary of $42,670.
South Carolina's average starting teacher salary is $32,389, below the 2012-2013 national average of $36,141, according to the National Education Association. Greenville County's starting teacher salary for 2014-2015 is $33,259 for a teacher with a bachelor's degree. Sadly, insofar as these kinds of lists go, South Carolina continues to rank near the bottom for teachers, Bernadette Hampton, president of the South Carolina Education Association, said in a statement.