Illinois Teachers, the Most Comfortable in America

by Collin Hitt Teacherportal.com, an online resource for teachers and would-be teachers, has created a Salary Comfort Score Index that ranks each state. Illinois public school teachers always rank among the country’s highest-paid, but what standard of living does that provide once other factors are accounted for. A word from Teacherportal on its methods: The...

by Collin Hitt

Teacherportal.com, an online resource for teachers and would-be teachers, has created a Salary Comfort Score Index that ranks each state. Illinois public school teachers always rank among the country’s highest-paid, but what standard of living does that provide once other factors are accounted for. A word from Teacherportal on its methods:

The Comfort Score examined average salaries (both starting and overall) and compared that to the cost of living. We then ranked each state by this metric to find which states were friendliest to teacher’s – from a salary perspective.

According to Teacherportal’s rankings, Illinois’s teachers are the most comfortable in the country – both at the beginning stages of their careers and overall.  Florida, whose academic progress with poor students outpaces the rest of the country by far, ranks 26th.  Massachusetts, who has maintained the performance levels that a decade ago were labeled “The Massachusetts Miracle,” ranks 34th.