Iowa County is definitely purple Wisconsin with about 42% voting for Trump/Walker. Average teacher salaries in this county range from $53,244 to $61,964. Likely owing to it's proximity to northern Illinois, every school district in the county had double digit teacher raises since 2011. While not as good as Minnesota, many Wisconsin teachers could see $10,000 pay raises or more by migrating to the higher salaries and better schools located in northern Illinois.
The increase in average teacher salaries for the Dodgeville school district was 11.3% which was half the inflation rate. The average teacher salary was one of the lowest in Iowa County at $54,287.
The Dodgeville school board may not place a high priority on attracting and retaining good teachers by keeping up with market salary conditions but it sure finds money for BIG Superintendent raises. During the same period, the Superintendent pay increased by 48.4%, the largest increase in Iowa County. Over FOUR TIMES the average teacher salary increase!
For these reasons, we rated the career potential for teachers in this district as a DEAD END job.
Planning on Returning to Teach in this District Next Year?
Have All Teachers Received CPI Pay Increases the Past 2 Years?
2023 CPI was 8.00%
2024 CPI was 4.12%
No???
Sick of the School Board Lavishing Big Raises on the Superintendent While Screwing Teachers?
Time to Send a Message to the School Board.....
Without a Guarantee of a BIG RAISE for signing your contract for the 2024-25 SY,
Make your School District WAIT until the week of June 12th to return your contract.
All contracts due by Saturday June 15th.
This is one of over 200 Wisconsin school districts have SCREWED teachers (50,000+) since 2011 while giving MASSIVE pay raises to the Superintendent.
Make your District value YOUR RETURN for next year as much as they value the Superintendent.
Unless they offer at least a CPI raise for all teachers,
Hold off on returning your signed contract until June 12-14th.