Annual salary
$56,500
Indiana · salary schedule · 2025-26
Duneland School Corporation salary schedule, 2025-26
New teacher hiring placement (2025-26). The grid below is the schedule as published, every cell; pick a column and years of experience to see the annual, monthly and per-day figure and the next five steps.
- Duneland School Corporation's 2025-26 salary schedule starts at $56,500 (BA/BS, years of experience 0) and tops out at $73,250 (MA/MS, years of experience 25), per Indiana Gateway, Collective Bargaining Contract Uploads (IEERB) (effective ).
- A teacher on the bachelor's column (BA/BS) starts at $56,500 and reaches $71,250 at the top of that column.
- On the master's column (MA/MS) the range is $58,500 to $73,250.
- The grid has 2 column columns and 26 years of experience rows; the highest cell is reached at years of experience 25.
- Duneland School Corporation enrolled 5,786 students in 2023-24, the 47th-largest district in Indiana by NCES enrollment.
New teacher hiring placement (2025-26)
Transcribed from imageDocumentIndiana Gateway, Collective Bargaining Contract Uploads (IEERB)School year2025-26Effective
| Years of Experience \ Column | BA/BS | MA/MS |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | $56,500 | $58,500 |
| 1 | $56,750 | $58,750 |
| 2 | $57,000 | $59,000 |
| 3 | $57,250 | $59,250 |
| 4 | $57,500 | $59,500 |
| 5 | $57,750 | $59,750 |
| 6 | $58,000 | $60,000 |
| 7 | $58,500 | $60,500 |
| 8 | $59,000 | $61,000 |
| 9 | $59,500 | $61,500 |
| 10 | $60,000 | $62,000 |
| 11 | $60,750 | $62,750 |
| 12 | $61,500 | $63,500 |
| 13 | $62,250 | $64,250 |
| 14 | $63,000 | $65,000 |
| 15 | $63,750 | $65,750 |
| 16 | $64,500 | $66,500 |
| 17 | $65,250 | $67,250 |
| 18 | $66,000 | $68,000 |
| 19 | $66,750 | $68,750 |
| 20 | $67,500 | $69,500 |
| 21 | $68,250 | $70,250 |
| 22 | $69,000 | $71,000 |
| 23 | $69,750 | $71,750 |
| 24 | $70,500 | $72,500 |
| 25 | $71,250 | $73,250 |
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Per month (12)
$4,708.33
Next 5 steps in this column
| Years of Experience | Salary | vs. selected |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $56,750 | +$250 |
| 2 | $57,000 | +$500 |
| 3 | $57,250 | +$750 |
| 4 | $57,500 | +$1,000 |
| 5 | $57,750 | +$1,250 |
Worked example as rendered: BA/BS, years of experience 0 = $56,500 a year, $4,708.33 a month spread over 12 months. Monthly and daily figures are arithmetic on the published annual cell, before any supplement, stipend or deduction.
Indiana has no statewide teacher salary schedule. Pay is bargained corporation by corporation, and this grid comes from the salary appendix of the teacher contract this corporation filed with the state under IC 20-29.
Indiana's 2011 bargaining law bars paying on degree and experience alone, so many corporations letter their rows instead of numbering them by years of service and name their columns after endorsements rather than credit hours.
Headed "New Teacher Hiring Placement (2025-2027)"; the 2025-2026 table is transcribed here and a 2026-2027 table beside it is $2,500 higher throughout.
This is the placement schedule the contract publishes for teachers new to the corporation. Returning teachers are paid their prior-year salary plus the bargained increase, which the same contract sets out separately.
Gateway also reports this corporation's minimum full-time teacher salary as $56,500.
Filed with Gateway on 11/14/2025.
- Soft spot: The salary appendix of this filing has no machine-readable text, so the grid was read off the page image and then checked digit by digit against an independent optical read of the same page.
How this schedule moves
On the BA/BS column a teacher moves from $56,500 at years of experience 0 to $71,250 at years of experience 25: 25 years of experience increases worth $590 each on average, 26% in total.
The largest single increase on that column is $750, between years of experience 10 and years of experience 11.
A master's degree is worth $2,000 more than a bachelor's at the first years of experience (3.5%) and $2,000 more at the top of the column (2.8%).
Among the 58 Indiana district schedules indexed here, Duneland School Corporation's starting pay ranks 2nd and its top cell ranks 42nd; the state medians are $47,000 to start and $78,150 at the top.
Across all 3,959 district grids indexed nationally, that starting figure sits at the 67th percentile and the top cell at the 28th percentile.
Column by column
| Column | First years of experience | Top | Years of Experience moves to top | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BA/BS | $56,500 | $71,250 | 25 | 26% |
| MA/MS | $58,500 | $73,250 | 25 | 25% |
Against Indiana districts of similar size
| District | Students | Year | Starting | Master's start | Top cell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duneland School Corporation | 5,786 | 2025-26 | $56,500 | $58,500 | $73,250 |
| Merrillville Community School Corp | 5,867 | 2025-26 | $52,000 | $53,000 | $85,000 |
| Anderson Community School Corp | 6,038 | 2025-26 | $50,000 | – | $75,000 |
| Kokomo School Corporation | 5,393 | 2025-26 | $47,000 | – | $75,250 |
| Portage Township Schools | 6,588 | 2025-26 | $52,550 | – | $84,650 |
| MSD Decatur Township | 6,655 | 2025-26 | $52,000 | – | $59,500 |
Starting pay is the first years of experience of the bachelor's column where the schedule has one, otherwise the lowest first-years of experience cell. Enrollment is NCES 2023-24. Years differ where districts publish on different cycles.
Questions people ask
What is the starting teacher salary in Duneland School Corporation?
$56,500 on the column BA/BS at years of experience 0 of the 2025-26 schedule (Indiana Gateway, Collective Bargaining Contract Uploads (IEERB)). The lowest cell on the whole grid is $56,500 (BA/BS).
What is the top of the Duneland School Corporation salary schedule?
$73,250, at years of experience 25 on MA/MS (2025-26). That is the highest published cell before any stipend, longevity or supplement not printed on the grid.
How long does it take to reach the top of the Duneland School Corporation salary schedule?
On the BA/BS column the top figure, $71,250, is reached at years of experience 25, 25 years of experience increases after years of experience 0 (2025-26 schedule).
How much more does a master's degree pay in Duneland School Corporation?
$2,000 more at the first years of experience: $58,500 on MA/MS against $56,500 on BA/BS (2025-26 schedule).
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