This school district is located in Trempealeau County, where the majority of residents are huge Trump supporters. Not surprisingly, public education in this county suffers from a lack of support from the mostly MAGA county residents.
The Trempealeau County school district average teacher salary ranges from $49,515 to $58,447.
The Independence school district was one of the lowest districts for average teacher salaries in this county at $49,641. The increase in average teacher salary for this school district was 20.8% since 2011, which was a little below the rate of inflation.
During the same time period, the Superintendent pay increased at 26.6%, which was equal to the rate of inflation.
With this county being located adjacent to the Minnesota border, we urge teachers considering teaching here to explore teaching vacancies just across the border in Minnesota. Successful candidates could earn starting salaries of $10-15,000 more than what teachers are now earning in Wisconsin, with far higher career salary potential.
Rating this district is a pretty easy call. It has one of the lowest average teacher salaries, but that salary is almost keeping up withinflation every year. Still a really low average salary is a really low average salary. So we'll rate this district as a Dead End job.
