INDIANAPOLIS --A new Legislative Services Agency (LSA) report released during the sole Fiscal Policy Interim Committee meeting of the year shows that since 2020, the median salary for full time teachers in Indiana decreased 3% when accounting for inflation.

In the same time period, teachers in rural schools saw their median salaries decrease between 4-5%. State Rep. Ed DeLaney (D-Indianapolis) and State Rep. Tonya Pfaff (D-Terre Haute) pushed for the LSA to study median salaries, something State Rep. DeLaney said needs to be increased.

“We’ve got to do more,” State Rep. DeLaney said. “We've got to get the beginning teachers up to maybe $55,000 a year...That gives more hope to people who are going to make a career out of it.”

According to Ball State University Economist Michael Hicks, In

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