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Teachers in Pleasant Valley School District 62 earned an average salary of $52,750 in 2020.
The average teacher salary in the US is roughly $60,000 in 2019. Teachers just starting out can expect to earn less than $40,000, according to Melanie Weir with Business Insider.
A study published in the Education Next Journal found higher salaries can have important ramifications on the quality of teachers within a school district. It found increasing the skills of a teacher through continued higher education resulted in improved student performance.
| Illinois School District | Average Salary |
|---|---|
| JAMP Special Education Services | $152,701 |
| Streator Township High School District 40 | $129,841 |
| Bloom Township High School District 206 | $129,237 |
| South Eastern Special Education | $128,836 |
| Lincoln-Way Community High School District 210 | $128,385 |
| Central Community Unit School District 4 | $120,842 |
| Sycamore Community Unit School District 427 | $120,065 |
| Glenbard Township High School District 87 | $114,913 |
| North DuPage Special Education Cooperative | $114,860 |
| Palatine Township High School District 211 | $113,779 |
| Washington Community High School District 308 | $112,555 |
| River Ridge Community Unit School District 210 | $109,782 |
| Chaney-Monge School District 88 | $108,816 |
| Marengo-Union ECSD 165 | $106,693 |
| Oregon Community Unit School District 220 | $105,781 |
| Round Lake Area School District 116 | $105,336 |
| Carbondale Elementary School District 95 | $104,971 |
| Morrison Community Unit School District 6 | $104,296 |
| Technology Center DuPage County | $103,824 |
| Coal City Community Unit School District 1 | $103,173 |
| Belvidere Community Unit School District 100 | $102,712 |
| Wauconda Community Unit School District 118 | $102,710 |
| Herrin Community Unit School District 4 | $102,540 |
| OFallon Community Consolidated School District 90 | $101,685 |
| Batavia Unit School District 101 | $100,955 |
| Dixon Unit School District 170 | $100,534 |
| Harvard Community Unit School District 50 | $98,031 |
| Prairie Central Community Unit School District 8 | $97,073 |
| Franklin Park School District 84 | $96,367 |
| Reavis Township High School District 220 | $95,974 |
| Naperville Community Unit School District 203 | $95,094 |
| Williamson County Special Education | $94,237 |
| Lincolnshire-Prairie View 103 | $93,349 |
| Harmony Emge School District 175 | $91,991 |
| South Central Community Unit School District 401 | $91,511 |
| Elmwood Community Unit School District 322 | $91,427 |
| Sterling Community Unit School District 5 | $91,234 |
| Johnston City Community Unit School District 1 | $91,149 |
| Gillespie Community Unit School District 7 | $90,573 |
| Zeigler Royalton Community Unit School District 188 | $90,253 |
| Country Club Hills School District 160 | $89,723 |
| Mahomet Seymour Community Unit School District 3 | $89,349 |
| Mundelein Community High School District 120 | $89,162 |
| DeKalb Community Unit School District 428 | $89,007 |
| Sunnybrook School District 171 | $88,531 |
| Adlai Stevenson High School District 125 | $88,423 |
| Leyden Community High School District 212 | $87,918 |
| Litchfield Community Unit School District 12 | $87,085 |
| Carlinville Community Unit School District 1 | $87,073 |
| Macomb Community Unit School District 185 | $86,037 |
| Wabash Community Unit School District 348 | $85,057 |
| North Pekin-Marquette Heights School District | $85,007 |
| Eswood Community Consolidated School District 269 | $84,765 |
| Maercker School District 60 | $84,675 |
| Homewood School District 153 | $84,571 |
| Fairfield Community High School District 225 | $84,456 |
| Community High School District 117 | $83,851 |
| School District U46 | $83,820 |
| Henry-Senachwine Community Unit School District 5 | $83,753 |
| El Paso - Gridley Community Unit School District 11 | $83,736 |
| Kinnikinnick Community Consolidated School District 131 | $83,605 |
| Carbon Cliff-Barstow School District 36 | $83,595 |
| Fairfield Public School District 112 | $83,429 |
| Mt. Vernon School District 80 | $83,392 |
| Christopher Unit School District 99 | $83,205 |
| Wood River-Hartford Elementary School District 15 | $82,959 |
| Trico Community Unit School District 176 | $82,111 |
| Streator Woodland Community Unit School District 5 | $81,948 |
| Harlem Unit School District 122 | $81,778 |
| Kewanee Community Unit School District 229 | $80,531 |
| Canton Union School District 66 | $80,519 |
| Germantown Hills School District 69 | $79,957 |
| Franklin-Jefferson Special Education | $79,838 |
| Vandalia Community Unit School District 203 | $79,187 |
| Shiloh Community Unit School District 1 | $78,637 |
| Hamilton County Community Unit School District 10 | $78,267 |
| Carterville Community Unit School District 5 | $78,079 |
| Downers Grove Grade School District 58 | $77,653 |
| Aurora East Unit School District 131 | $77,246 |
| Pinckneyville School District 50 | $77,037 |
| Bradley Bourbonnais Community High School District 307 | $76,945 |
| Creve Coeur School District 76 | $76,923 |
| Monticello Community Unit School District 25 | $76,919 |
| Riverton Community Unit School District 14 | $76,760 |
| Wethersfield Community Unit School District 230 | $76,032 |
| Tuscola Community Unit School District 301 | $75,493 |
| Fieldcrest Community Unit School District 6 | $74,272 |
| Nashville Community Consolidated School District 49 | $73,462 |
| Maine Township High School District 207 | $72,749 |
| Eldorado Community Unit School District 4 | $72,053 |
| Huntley Consolidated School District 158 | $71,581 |
| Knoxville Community Unit School District 202 | $71,223 |
| River Bend Community Unit School District 2 | $70,613 |
| Bureau Valley Community Unit School District 340 | $70,341 |
| Shelbyville Community Unit School District 4 | $70,136 |
| Mt. Pulaski Community Unit School District 23 | $69,500 |
| Sparta Community Unit School District 140 | $69,348 |
| Teachers Retirement System | $68,871 |
| Abingdon-Avon Community Unit School District 276 | $68,702 |
| Meridian Community Unit School District 15 | $68,426 |
| Pekin Community High School District 303 | $68,265 |
| Altamont Community Unit School District 10 | $67,762 |
| Queen Bee School District 16 | $67,737 |
| Fisher Community Unit School District 1 | $67,102 |
| United School District 304 | $67,031 |
| Regional Office of Education 17 | $65,412 |
| Villa Park School District 45 | $64,711 |
| Sherrard Community Unit School District 200 | $63,818 |
| Thompsonville Community Unit School District 174 | $63,653 |
| North Greene Unit School District 3 | $63,180 |
| Deer Creek-Mackinaw Community Unit School District 701 | $62,671 |
| Lowpoint-Washburn Community Unit School District 21 | $62,521 |
| Tremont Community Unit School District 702 | $62,484 |
| Argenta-Oreana Community Unit School District 1 | $62,239 |
| Plainfield School District 202 | $62,188 |
| Robinson Community Unit School District 2 | $62,119 |
| Community Unit School District 200 | $62,107 |
| Special Education District of Lake County | $61,925 |
| Dieterich Community Unit School District 30 | $61,759 |
| Columbia Community Unit School District 4 | $61,419 |
| Central Community Unit School District 301 | $61,090 |
| Irvington Community Consolidated School District 11 | $60,924 |
| Illinois State Board Of Education | $60,731 |
| Consolidated High School District 230 | $60,525 |
| Crete Monee Community Unit School District 201U | $60,518 |
| Aurora West Unit School District 129 | $59,816 |
| Five County Vocational System | $59,470 |
| Marseilles Elementary School District 150 | $59,187 |
| Marshall Community Unit School District 2C | $59,152 |
| Marion Community Unit School District 2 | $58,889 |
| Martinsville Community Unit School District 3C | $58,488 |
| Scott-Morgan County Community Unit School District 2 | $58,389 |
| New Lenox School District 122 | $58,090 |
| Freeport School District 145 | $57,105 |
| Shapiro Developmental Center | $56,926 |
| Community Consolidated School District 59 | $55,684 |
| Geneva Community Unit School District 304 | $55,058 |
| West Carroll Community Unit School District 314 | $54,922 |
| West Chicago Elementary School District 33 | $54,842 |
| Staunton Community Unit School District 6 | $54,824 |
| Manhattan School District 114 | $53,138 |
| Pleasant Valley School District 62 | $52,750 |
| Cook County School District 130 | $52,307 |
| Okaw Valley Community Unit School District 302 | $52,182 |
| Maywood School District 89 | $51,947 |
| Lincoln Elementary School District 156 | $51,914 |
| Schuyler - Industry Community Unit School District 5 | $50,726 |
| Flossmoor School District 161 | $49,795 |
| Collinsville Community Unit School District 10 | $48,860 |
| Massac Unit School District 1 | $48,843 |
| Eureka Community Unit School District 140 | $48,239 |
| Heyworth Community Unit School District 4 | $46,860 |
| Highland Community Unit School District 5 | $45,113 |
| Tri-County Special Education Cooperative | $44,928 |
| Elementary School District 159 | $44,062 |
| Carlyle Community Unit School District 1 | $43,745 |
| Berwyn North School District 98 | $42,721 |
| Kankakee School District 111 | $42,226 |
| Bradley School District 61 | $41,954 |
| Herscher Community Unit School District 2 | $41,882 |
| East St. Louis School District 189 | $41,309 |
| East Moline School District 37 | $41,254 |
| Wabash & Ohio Valley Special Education | $39,852 |
| Georgetown-Ridge Farm Community Unit District 4 | $38,788 |
| Lincoln Community High School District 404 | $37,978 |
| Des Plaines Community Consolidated School District 62 | $37,351 |
| Greenfield Community Unit School District 10 | $37,143 |
| Springfield School District 186 | $36,711 |
| Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 | $36,673 |
| Beecher City Community Unit School District 20 | $36,582 |
| Thornton School District 154 | $36,544 |
| Special Education Cooperative Joint Agreement 803 Proviso Area for Exceptional Children | $35,218 |
| Community Unit School District 300 | $34,861 |
| Unity Point Community Consolidated School District 140 | $34,651 |
| Indian Creek Community Unit School District 425 | $34,615 |
| St. Charles Community Unit School District 303 | $33,769 |
| Valley View Community Unit School District 365 | $33,499 |
| Community High School District 155 | $33,460 |
| Camp Point Community Unit School District 3 | $33,327 |
| Rock Island School District 41 | $32,978 |
| West Chicago Community High School District 94 | $32,819 |
| Kankakee Area Career Center | $32,544 |
| Palatine Community Consolidated School District 15 | $32,048 |
| Chester Community Unit School District 139 | $31,893 |
| Henry - Stark County Special Education District | $31,460 |
| Edwardsville Community Unit School District 7 | $30,618 |
| Peoria School District 150 | $29,897 |
| Western Community Unit School District 12 | $29,358 |
| Windsor Community Unit School District 1 | $28,828 |
| Rockford School District 205 | $27,915 |
| Oak Park Elementary School District 97 | $27,889 |
| Boone-Winnebago Counties Regional Office of Education | $26,931 |
| Colona School District 190 | $26,827 |
| Sandoval Community Unit School District 501 | $25,975 |
| McHenry Community Consolidated School District 15 | $25,878 |
| Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley 5 | $25,059 |
| Olympia Community Unit School District 16 | $24,281 |
| Duquoin Community Unit School District 300 | $23,845 |
| Channahon School District 17 | $23,237 |
| Taylorville Community Unit School District 3 | $22,697 |
| Mid-Valley Special Education | $22,109 |
| Champaign Community Unit School District 4 | $21,169 |
| Quincy School District 172 | $20,065 |
| Cicero School District 99 | $19,401 |
| Urbana School District 116 | $19,144 |
| Schaumburg Community Consolidated School District 54 | $18,745 |
| Moline Unit School District 40 | $18,053 |
| North Chicago School District 187 | $18,021 |
| Ford Heights School District 169 | $18,008 |
| Keeneyville School District 20 | $17,936 |
| Chadwick Milledgeville School District 399 | $17,835 |
| Hinsdale Township High School District 86 | $15,954 |
| Lake County Area Vocational | $15,047 |
| Antioch Community Consolidated School District 34 | $14,599 |
| Leland Community Unit School District 1 | $13,944 |
| Spring Garden Community Consolidated School District 178 | $13,901 |
| Oblong Community Unit School District 4 | $13,646 |
| Bloomington School District 87 | $13,408 |
| South Holland School District 151 | $13,068 |
| Addison School District 4 | $12,353 |
| New Trier Township High School District 203 | $12,212 |
| Troy Community Consolidated School District 30C | $10,021 |
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