The average home price in Cashiers is $1.4 million. The starting salary for a first-year teacher in North Carolina is in the low $40,000s.
These two figures present a challenge for Jackson County Public Schools when it comes to recruiting and hiring teachers at Blue Ridge School and Blue Ridge Early College, which share a joint PreK through high school campus at the southern end of the county. Unless someone is independently wealthy or has family land, no one can afford to live in the community, and the other places to live are a long and windy drive away.
