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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.
State average public school teacher salaries ranged from those in New York ($76,409), Massachusetts ($73,195), and District of Columbia ($73,162) at the high end to South Dakota ($40,023), Mississippi ($42,187), and Idaho ($44,465) at the low end (C-11).verage teacher salaries since 2008 do not include payments by the Maine Department of Education to bring teachers paid below $30,000 up to the $30,000 minimum salary. MICHIGAN: The data in this report can be found at http://www.michigan.gov/cepi. The average salary of teachers is not an FTE-weighted average.