Pritzker Signs Plan to Raise Minimum Teacher Salary to 40K

[Sherman A1]

The minimum salary a teacher can be paid in Illinois will soon increase. Governor J.B. Pritzker joined educators and activists to sign a wage increase plan into law Thursday.

It’s a four year plan state lawmakers cooked up to address a teacher shortage. The Illinois Education Association, one of the state's teacher unions, estimates about 1,500 teaching jobs went unfilled in the last school year alone. Numbers for this school year have not yet been provided.

Illinois’ current minimum salary for teachers is between $10,000 and $11,000 per year, an amount set in 1980.

The wage increases will start next year, bumping up minimum salaries to a little more than $32,000. By the start of the 2023-24 school year, Illinois teachers will have to be paid at least $40,000.

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/pritzker-signs-plan-raise-minimum-teacher-salary-40k

[in2herbs]

1. Not soon enough, not good enough. I think of our teachers as being CEO of a corporation with each

child being a corporation. As such, teachers should earn the proportionate share of what any other corporate CEO makes.