District Info
Career Prospect: 
Dead End Job

CESA 4

West Salem
https://www.cesa4.k12.wi.us/
608-786-4800

Buffalo County

County Seat: 
Alma
WCA District: 
Western
608-685-6234
Political Environment
2016 Election: 
59% Trump
2018 Election: 
58% Walker
2020 Election: 
62% Trump
2024 Election: 
64% Trump
COVID Rate: 
58% Fully Vaccinated

 

 

Money Stolen From This District's Taxpayers to Fund School Vouchers Across Wisconsin
2022-23 School Year: 
$36,180
The Republican Dictatorship that rules 'Wisconsin has underfunded public schools since 2011 while giving the largest funding increases in America to private & parochial voucher schools.
Average Teacher Salaries
2010-2011 Average Salary: 
$43,096
2022-23 Projected Salary at 26.3% Inflation Rate: 
$58,783
2022-23 Average Salary: 
$48,622
2023-24 Projected Salary at 36.4% Inflation Rate: 
$58,783
2023-24 Average Salary: 
$50,903
Average Teacher Salary Performance
WERC Inflation Rate Since July 2011 : 
36.4%
Real Salary Change: 
18.1%
2022-23 Purchasing Power Change : 
$-10,161
2023-24 Purchasing Power Change: 
$-7,880

Teaching in this district is the definition of a Dead End Job. 

The average teacher salary in this district was just over $43,000 in 2010-11.  Fourteen years later, this district has increased teacher salaries so little that the average teacher salary is just under $51,000, or a 18% increase which is half the inflation rate. mark. Likely there has been a massive teacher turnover rate for many years in this district.

While teachers get screwed in this district every year, there was enough money to give the Superintendent a $45000 raise last year, which works out to a stunning 68% pay increase since 2010-11. 

It has been our experience that when a district screws it's teachers while lavishing massive pay increases on the Superintendent, that these districts are absolutely HORRIBLE places to teach. 

This district is located about 25 miles from the Minnesota border. While the Republican Dictatorship that rules Wisconsin continues to defund public schools,  Minnesota just sent a 2 BILLION dollar funding increase to keep it's public schools #1 in America. Wisconsin is declining while Minnesota is the economic engine of the Midwest.

This school district is located in an Ultra-MAGA Trump voting county where residents support everything that President Trump does. Dissent is not tolerated in these Ultra MAGA Wisconsin counties. 

We suggest teachers who are not 100% supporters of President Trump flee Republican voting school districts like this one for the much higher pay and benefits offered in Minnesota districts.

 

Estimated Average Teacher Income Loss Since 2011 From Act 10
$137,063

The Republican Dictatorship that has Ruled Wisconsin Since 2011 has underfunded public schools by over 4 Billion dollars in order to provide massive tax cuts to the wealthiest individual taxpayers and big business and manufacturers by severely reducing teacher salaries & benefits.

Superintendent Earnings
2010-2011 Superintendent Salary: 
$98,307
2022-23 Projected Salary at 26.3% Inflation Rate : 
$134,091
2022-23 Superintendent Salary: 
$120,000
2023-24 Projected Salary at 36.4% Inflation Rate: 
$134,091
2023-24 Superintendent Salary: 
$165,079
Superintendent Salary Performance
WERC Inflation Rate Since July 2011 : 
36.4%
Real Salary Change: 
67.9%
2022-23 Purchasing Power Change: 
$-14,091
2023-24 Purchasing Power Change: 
$30,988
Ten Year Teacher Salaries
Median 2020-2021 First Year Teacher Salary: 
$0
Projected Ten Year Salary in 2020-21: 
$0
Median 2020-2021 Ten Year Teacher Salary: 
$0
Ten Year Teacher Salary Performance
10 Year WERC Inflation Rate: 
26.3%
Real Salary Change : 
0.0%
Real Purchasing Power Change*: 
$0