Walk into teacher negotiations knowing exactly where you stand.
CollBar gives Illinois CSBOs, treasurers, and superintendents eleven years of teacher settlement data and full multi-year CBA cost modeling — so you bargain from precedent, not from memory.
The union team walks in with eleven years of comparables. You walk in with last cycle's spreadsheet.
Salaries and benefits are the largest expense a district controls — yet the settlement data that shapes them has never been easy to see, verify, or cost in real time.
The precedent exists — it's just scattered
Eleven years of settlements sit in board minutes, ISBE filings, and PDFs across 800+ districts. The union team has someone who compiled it. Until now, there was no practical way for a district to do the same.
The real cost hides under the headline number
Step movement, lane changes, longevity, insurance, and TRS stack on top of the base — and they 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, and the multi-year math takes days the conversation doesn't give you. The table moves at the speed of talk; the costing has always moved at the speed of a workbook.
The data the other side already has — now on your side of the table.
Eleven years of precedent and full contract cost modeling, in your hands before the first session — the compiling done, the math built, the position yours to make.
Every settlement, already assembled
Eleven years of teacher contract settlements from across Illinois, pulled from public records and organized by comparable district — base, steps, lanes, and total package. The work the other side had someone do is already done for you.
The whole cost, not the headline number
Model the full life of a contract — step-and-lane movement, longevity, stipends, insurance, and TRS — so you know what a proposal actually costs before you respond to it.
Answers at the speed of the table
When a counter lands, run the multi-year cost while the session is live — and take your board a position you can defend line by line.
The CBA Costing Toolkit
The same costing approach we use to model Illinois teacher contracts — tested against 100+ Illinois CBAs at 99% accuracy. Use it to cost out step, lane, longevity, insurance, and TRS across the full life of a proposed contract.
- 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 the settlements for your district and the ones around you, and run any proposal through the cost model.
Walk in prepared
Sit down at the table knowing where you stand, what a proposal costs, and what your board can defend.
Built on public records; every figure traceable to its source.
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 firm; 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 district's 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.