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Illinois teachers make some of the highest Kâ12 educators' salaries in the country, averaging $59,113 a year. According to the Cost of Living Index, that's like $61,834.At $37,166, the starting salaries for teachers there are also some of the highest in the nation.1 Michigan. When cost of living is taken into account, Michigan teachersâ pay, at an average salary of $61,560, is the highest in the country. In that state dollars go further, so the adjusted income is more like $64,937. Michigan spends about 30 percent of all education expenditures on teachersâ salaries.
Point of interest: the average salary -- that's the average salary -- of a school superintendent in the state of Illinois is higher than that of the governor! Overall, there are more than 100 school district officials in Illinois who make more than the governor. 1  Big Pay, Little District by Jake Griffin, Daily Herald, May 21, 2014.  The 100 highest-paid school administrators in Illinois in 2006 had salaries ranging from $205,590 to $380,227.