Kimberly L. Martin earned $3,450 in the last year with Lisle Community Unit School District 202.
In that time, they contributed $3,556 to their pension, which will come into effect after they retire.
A study published in the Education Next Journal found higher salaries can have significant ramifications on the quality of teachers within a school district. It found increasing the skills of a teacher through continued higher education resulted in improved student performance.
Rotherham said a sizable amount of teacher pensions are made in the last five years of a pension, approximately between 25 and 30 years of contributions.
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How much did Illinois teacher Denise A. Hage make with SASED before retiring, according to contribution data accumulated from FOIA requests?
Denise A. Hage earned $106,953 in the year they retired from SASED. They taught from 1979 to 2015 with SASED.
In that time, they contributed $134,624 to their pension and have received $5,333 so far after their retirement.
Rotherham said a sizable amount of teacher pensions are made in the last five years of a pension, approximately between 25 and 30 years of contributions.
The average teacher salary in the US is roughly $60,000 in 2019. Teachers just starting can expect to earn less than $40,000, according to Melanie Weir with Business Insider.
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