Walk into negotiations knowing exactly where you stand.
Eleven years of Illinois K-12 settlements. Full multi-year cost modeling.
Free for your own district. No credit card.
The precedent is public. Seeing it is the problem.
The precedent exists. It's just scattered.
Eleven years of settlements sit in board minutes, ISBE filings, and PDFs across 800+ district websites. Nobody at the table sees the whole picture.
The real cost hides under the headline number
Steps, lanes, longevity, insurance, and TRS compound across the life of the contract. A half percent that looks small at the table is six figures by year three.
Counters move faster than spreadsheets
Proposals land mid-session. The multi-year math takes days. The table moves at the speed of talk.
Every settlement, assembled and costed. Before your first session.
Every settlement, already assembled
Settlements from 865 districts, organized by comparable: base, steps, lanes, total package.
The whole cost, not the headline
Model the full contract: steps, lanes, longevity, stipends, insurance, TRS. Know what a proposal costs before you respond.
Answers at the speed of the table
A counter lands. You run the multi-year cost while the session is still live.
One dataset. Every seat at the table.
A CSBO asks: what did districts our size settle for?
A union rep asks: which districts already use the language we're proposing?
A researcher asks: how have settlements moved since 2015?
Same database. Different questions.
For districts
Superintendents, CSBOs, and board teams pull comparables, cost proposals mid-session, and take the board a position they can defend line by line.
For union locals
Bargaining chairs, local presidents, and UniServ directors see every settlement in their conference and cost the district's counter before responding.
For neutrals
Mediators, fact-finders, and arbitrators build comparability arrays from traceable public records. Every figure cites a document either party can verify.
Our neutrality commitment
Same data, same features, same prices, both sides. Everything comes from public records. Your notes, models, and scenarios are yours alone; no one across the table can ever see them. We advise no one. The analysis answers to no one at the table.
The CBA Costing Toolkit
The costing approach we use to model Illinois teacher contracts, tested against 100+ Illinois CBAs at 99% accuracy. Cost step, lane, longevity, insurance, and TRS across the full life of a proposal.
- Multi-year salary schedule modeling
- Step, lane, and longevity movement
- Insurance and TRS contribution costs
- Side-by-side proposal comparison
Tested on 1,932 publicly available collective bargaining agreements
From 865 Illinois school districts
Three steps to a prepared negotiation
Find your district
Search for your district and create a free account. No contract upload, no roster, no sales call. The data is already loaded.
Pull your comparables
Eleven years of contracts, settlements, and cost models are already there. Pull your comparables and run any proposal through the cost model.
Walk in prepared
Sit down knowing where you stand, what a proposal costs, and what your board or your members will ask you to defend.
Every figure traces to a document you can pull yourself.
CollBar's settlement data is assembled from Illinois teacher contract settlements and salary information, 1,932 publicly available collective bargaining agreements across 865 districts, obtained through public records. Every number in a comparable or cost model traces back to a document you can pull yourself.
No estimates. No survey self-reporting. No modeled guesses filling gaps.
CollBar is an independent product; not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of the Illinois State Board of Education or any government agency. Independence is the point: the analysis answers to no one at the table.
11 years of Illinois settlement data
Sourced from public records
Comparable-district benchmarking
Auditable, defensible cost models
See your data before your next session.
Search your district and your comparables in CollBar: eleven years of settlements and your cost picture, free for your own district. No call, no wait, no contract upload.