2026-27 · District salary guide
School District U-46Teacher salary schedule
Find your pay ↓Published bachelor’s starting pay → highest published maximum across this district’s degree lanes. Placement depends on credited experience and education.
At School District U-46, published bachelor’s starting pay is $60,689 for 2026-27.
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View the official scheduleYour pay ladder.
Find the row for your credited step, then read across to your education lane. Missing values are marked “Not published”.
Master’s and Doctorate pay are not published in this schedule, so those columns are left out.
| Step | Bachelor’s |
|---|---|
| 1 | $60,689 |
| 2 | $63,344 |
| 3 | $65,999 |
| 4 | $68,654 |
| 5 | $71,309 |
| 6 | $73,964 |
| 7 | $76,620 |
| 8 | $79,275 |
| 9 | $81,930 |
| 10 | $84,585 |
| 11 | $87,240 |
| 12 | $89,895 |
| 13 | $92,550 |
| 14 | $95,205 |
| 15 | $97,861 |
| 16 | $100,516 |
| 17 | $103,171 |
| 18 | $105,826 |
| 19 | $108,481 |
| 20 | $111,136 |
Salary at a glance
- Bachelor’s starting pay
- $60,689
- Master’s starting pay
- Not published
- Bachelor’s maximum
- $111,136
- Master’s maximum
- Not published
- Doctorate maximum
- Not published
District source · Annual amounts for 2026-27.
Schedule notes
Elgin Agreement 2023-2027 (U-46 / Elgin Teachers Association), Appendix E Tables of Pay, 2026-27 Salary Schedule with TRS, posted on the district's AppliTrack jobs portal. Steps A-T are recorded as steps 1-20. Columns are BA, +10, +20 ... +70 graduate hours; the posted tables do not say which column a master's degree places in, and the full contract link in the document is dead (404), so master's and doctorate fields are null. BA column: $60,689 (step A) to $111,136 (step T). Highest cell on the schedule is $129,722 (+70, step T). Enrollment is ISBE Oct 1, 2025 public enrollment.
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Experience credit and education requirements are set by the district. Check the official schedule for contract length, supplements and rules for moving between lanes. These base amounts are not take-home pay.
Reported district enrollment: 33,027 students. Source.
Sources and last checked
- School District U-46 official salary schedule · School District U-46
- District source and context · School District U-46
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