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.
Free for your own district. No credit card.
Most districts negotiate the biggest line in their budget half-blind.
Salaries and benefits are the largest expense a district controls — and the one most leaders go into negotiations least prepared to defend.
You're negotiating against precedent you can't see
The union team walks in with comparables from neighboring districts. You're working from memory, scattered board minutes, and last cycle's spreadsheet.
A half-percent you didn't model costs six figures
Step movement, lane changes, longevity, insurance, and TRS stack on top of the base. The headline raise is never the real number.
The board wants a defensible answer — now
When a counter lands at the table, "we'll take it back and run the numbers" isn't a strategy. You need the multi-year cost while the conversation is live.
The data the other side already has — now on your side of the table.
CollBar puts settlement precedent and real cost modeling in front of you before you ever sit down to bargain.
Settlement data for districts across Illinois
Eleven years of teacher contract settlements, organized so you can see exactly where comparable districts landed — base, steps, lanes, and total package.
True multi-year cost, not the headline number
Model the full life of the contract: step-and-lane movement, longevity, stipends, insurance, and TRS — so you know what a proposal actually costs.
Bargain from precedent, not from memory
Walk in with the same comparables the other side uses — and a defensible position you can put in front of your board.
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 100+ Illinois CBAs
99% accuracy against real settled agreements.
Three steps to a prepared negotiation
Tell us your district
Share your district and your email. That's it — no contract or roster required to start.
You pull settlement comparables
The data is already there — eleven years of contracts, settlements, and cost models. Pull the comparables for your district and the ones around you.
You walk in prepared
Sit down at the table knowing where you stand, what a proposal costs, and what your board can defend.
Free for your own district. No credit card.
Built on public records — not estimates.
Our settlement data is assembled from publicly available Illinois teacher contract settlements and salary information reported to the Illinois State Board of Education. Every figure traces back to a public source you can verify.
CollBar is an independent firm. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of the Illinois State Board of Education or any government agency.
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.
Tell us your district and we'll send your settlement comparables and cost picture — free for your own district.