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Plainfield SD 202 highlights multi‑year pay plan, tuition‑reimbursement and hiring incentives to fill teacher vacancies
Summary
Administration and Personnel presented a multi‑year compensation strategy that targets the 80th percentile for pay, expands tuition‑reimbursement and signing bonus programs, and reported current vacancy counts; district staff said some positions may take multiple years to reach target pay levels.
District leaders told the Administration and Personnel Committee on June 18 that they have adopted a three‑year compensation structure aimed at moving employee pay for multiple categories to the 80th percentile of surrounding districts and then indexing later years to CPI.
Officials said the strategy has been implemented in stages: in 2024 the district negotiated pay to reach the 80th percentile for several bargaining groups and in 2025 finished negotiations on the APT contract. The district also negotiated substitute‑pay increases starting in 2025–26 and expanded tuition‑reimbursement language in both the PASS and APT agreements.
Why it matters: Committee presenters said the effort is aimed at…
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