By Alex Napoliello/NJ.com

Teachers in New Jersey are the sixth highest paid in the country, according to a study conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics.

The estimated average annual salary for a teacher in New Jersey is $68,797. But that’s a 3.4 percent drop from the 1999-2000 school year when teachers earned an estimated average salary of $71,216 in inflated-adjusted dollars.

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