The 25 Lowest Paid Teacher Salaries in Northern Illinois

Teachers, if you want to make a lot of money, you need to move an hour east of Rockford. Stateline teachers get shafted when it comes to teacher salaries based on Illinois averages

You would think that all teachers would make the same all across Illinois. Not true! The average salary of a teacher in Illinois is $63,450. Teachers in the Northwest suburbs average over $100,000 a year. Shocking figures!.

In a report published by Reboot Illinois, they crunched the numbers. From those numbers, we pulled school districts from Northern Illinois. Here are the average teacher salaries for full-time teachers for school districts in the Stateline.

Rockford teachers average salary of $60,926 and rank in the Top 25%. The lowest average teacher salary is near Rockton, in Shirland, IL. Keep in mind, that means many full time teachers make LESS than the average.

25 LOWEST PAID TEACHERS IN NORTHERN ILLINOIS

1. Shirland CCSD 134	$ 39,356
2. Paw Paw CUSD 271	$ 42,704
3. Lena Winslow CUSD 202	$ 45,334
4. Pecatonica CUSD 321	$ 45,516
5. Pearl City CUSD 200	$ 46,213
6. Harvard CUSD 50	$ 47,564
7. Ogle Co Education Cooperative	$ 48,430
8. LeRoy CUSD 2	$ 49,125
9. Princeton ESD 115	$ 49,156
10 West Carroll CUSD 314	$ 49,164
11. Freeport SD 145	$ 49,535
12. Indian Creek CUSD 425	$ 50,189
13. Monticello CUSD 25	$ 50,227
14. Carroll/Jo Daviess/Stephenson ROE	$ 50,236
15. County of Winnebago SD 320	$ 51,218
16. Hinckley Big Rock CUSD 429	$ 51,480
17. Orangeville CUSD 203	$ 51,765
18. Eswood CCSD 269	$ 52,035
19. Marengo-Union E Cons D 165	$ 52,102
20. Durand CUSD 322	$ 52,191
21.Polo CUSD 222	$ 52,444
22. Rock Falls ESD 13	$ 52,620
23. Rochelle CCSD 231	$ 52,790
24. Dakota CUSD 201	$ 53,085
25. North Boone CUSD 200	$ 53,301