Annual salary
$53,000
Indiana · salary schedule · 2025-26
Union School Corporation salary schedule, 2025-26
Compensation model salary table (2025-26). The grid below is the schedule as published, every cell; pick a column and professionalism level to see the annual, monthly and per-day figure and the next five steps.
- Union School Corporation's 2025-26 salary schedule starts at $53,000 (2025-2026 Bachelor's Degree, professionalism level 0-1) and tops out at $72,000 (2025-2026 Master's Degree, professionalism level 18), per Indiana Gateway, Collective Bargaining Contract Uploads (IEERB) (effective ).
- A teacher on the bachelor's column (2025-2026 Bachelor's Degree) starts at $53,000 and reaches $62,000 at the top of that column.
- On the master's column (2025-2026 Master's Degree) the range is $55,000 to $72,000.
- The grid has 2 column columns and 18 professionalism level rows; the highest cell is reached at professionalism level 18.
- Union School Corporation enrolled 7,855 students in 2023-24, the 34th-largest district in Indiana by NCES enrollment.
Compensation model salary table (2025-26)
Transcribed from imageDocumentIndiana Gateway, Collective Bargaining Contract Uploads (IEERB)School year2025-26Effective
| Professionalism Level \ Column | 2025-2026 Bachelor's Degree | 2025-2026 Master's Degree |
|---|---|---|
| 0-1 | $53,000 | $55,000 |
| 2 | $54,000 | $56,000 |
| 3 | $55,000 | $57,000 |
| 4 | $56,000 | $58,000 |
| 5 | $57,000 | $59,000 |
| 6 | $58,000 | $60,000 |
| 7 | $59,000 | $61,000 |
| 8 | $60,000 | $62,000 |
| 9 | $61,000 | $63,000 |
| 10 | $62,000 | $64,000 |
| 11 | $65,000 | |
| 12 | $66,000 | |
| 13 | $67,000 | |
| 14 | $68,000 | |
| 15 | $69,000 | |
| 16 | $70,000 | |
| 17 | $71,000 | |
| 18 | $72,000 |
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Per month (12)
$4,416.67
Next 5 steps in this column
| Professionalism Level | Salary | vs. selected |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $54,000 | +$1,000 |
| 3 | $55,000 | +$2,000 |
| 4 | $56,000 | +$3,000 |
| 5 | $57,000 | +$4,000 |
| 6 | $58,000 | +$5,000 |
Worked example as rendered: 2025-2026 Bachelor's Degree, professionalism level 0-1 = $53,000 a year, $4,416.67 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.
Appendix A-1 of the contract, headed "Compensation Model Salary Table, 2025-2027 New Teachers"; 2026-2027 columns beside these run $3,000 higher.
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.
The Bachelor's columns stop at professionalism level 10; levels 11 to 18 are Master's only.
The first pass over the Gateway filings matched this corporation to another unit of a similar name and never read its own contract; this grid comes from the filing Gateway lists under this corporation.
Gateway also reports this corporation's minimum full-time teacher salary as $53,000.
Filed with Gateway on 10/31/2025.
- 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 2025-2026 Bachelor's Degree column a teacher moves from $53,000 at professionalism level 0-1 to $62,000 at professionalism level 10: 9 professionalism level increases worth $1,000 each on average, 17% in total.
The largest single increase on that column is $1,000, between professionalism level 0-1 and professionalism level 2.
A master's degree is worth $2,000 more than a bachelor's at the first professionalism level (3.8%) and $10,000 more at the top of the column (16.1%).
Among the 58 Indiana district schedules indexed here, Union School Corporation's starting pay ranks 4th and its top cell ranks 46th; 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 57th percentile and the top cell at the 26th percentile.
Column by column
| Column | First professionalism level | Top | Professionalism Level moves to top | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-2026 Bachelor's Degree | $53,000 | $62,000 | 9 | 17% |
| 2025-2026 Master's Degree | $55,000 | $72,000 | 17 | 31% |
Against Indiana districts of similar size
| District | Students | Year | Starting | Master's start | Top cell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Union School Corporation | 7,855 | 2025-26 | $53,000 | $55,000 | $72,000 |
| Zionsville Community Schools | 7,923 | 2025-26 | $52,500 | – | $106,500 |
| Lafayette School Corporation | 7,152 | 2025-26 | $45,000 | – | $64,000 |
| MSD Decatur Township | 6,655 | 2025-26 | $52,000 | – | $59,500 |
| Portage Township Schools | 6,588 | 2025-26 | $52,550 | – | $84,650 |
| Anderson Community School Corp | 6,038 | 2025-26 | $50,000 | – | $75,000 |
Starting pay is the first professionalism level of the bachelor's column where the schedule has one, otherwise the lowest first-professionalism level cell. Enrollment is NCES 2023-24. Years differ where districts publish on different cycles.
Questions people ask
What is the starting teacher salary in Union School Corporation?
$53,000 on the column 2025-2026 Bachelor's Degree at professionalism level 0-1 of the 2025-26 schedule (Indiana Gateway, Collective Bargaining Contract Uploads (IEERB)). The lowest cell on the whole grid is $53,000 (2025-2026 Bachelor's Degree).
What is the top of the Union School Corporation salary schedule?
$72,000, at professionalism level 18 on 2025-2026 Master's Degree (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 Union School Corporation salary schedule?
On the 2025-2026 Bachelor's Degree column the top figure, $62,000, is reached at professionalism level 10, 9 professionalism level increases after professionalism level 0-1 (2025-26 schedule).
How much more does a master's degree pay in Union School Corporation?
$2,000 more at the first professionalism level: $55,000 on 2025-2026 Master's Degree against $53,000 on 2025-2026 Bachelor's Degree (2025-26 schedule).
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- Lafayette School Corporationstarts $45,000
- MSD Decatur Townshipstarts $52,000
- Portage Township Schoolsstarts $52,550
- Anderson Community School Corpstarts $50,000
- Merrillville Community School Corpstarts $52,000
- Duneland School Corporationstarts $56,500
- East Allen County Schoolsstarts $48,273
- Kokomo School Corporationstarts $47,000
- Monroe County Community Sch Corpstarts $57,750
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