§ 20-28-9-1.5 — Increases or increments in teacher salaries; supplemental payments; differentiated amounts; duties of Indiana education employment relations board

Indiana § 20-28-9-1.5

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 20: EDUCATION
• Art. 28: SCHOOL TEACHERS
• Ch. 9: Salary and Related Payments

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5. (a) This subsection governs salary increases
for a teacher employed by a school corporation. Compensation
attributable to additional degrees or graduate credits earned before the
effective date of a local compensation plan created under this chapter
before July 1, 2015, shall continue for school years beginning after
June 30, 2015. Compensation attributable to additional degrees for
which a teacher has started course work before July 1, 2011, and
completed course work before September 2, 2014, shall also continue
for school years beginning after June 30, 2015. For school years
beginning after June 30, 2022, a school corporation may provide a
supplemental payment to a teacher in excess of the salary specified in
the school corporation's compensation plan when doing so is in the best
interest of students. A supplement provided under this subsection is not
subject to collective bargaining and, under IC 20-29-6-3(d), a school
corporation may exclude, for this purpose, a portion of the revenue
available for bargaining from education fund revenues included in IC 20-29-2-6. Such a supplement is in addition to any increase permitted
under subsection (b).
(b) Subject to subsection (e), increases or increments in a local
salary range must be based upon a combination of the following
factors:
(1) A combination of the following factors taken together may
account for not more than fifty percent (50%) of the calculation
used to determine a teacher's increase or increment:
(A) The number of years of a teacher's experience.
(B) The possession of either:
(i) additional content area degrees beyond the requirements
for employment; or
(ii) additional content area degrees and credit hours beyond
the requirements for employment, if required under an
agreement bargained under IC 20-29.
(2) The results of an evaluation conducted under IC 20-28-11.5.
(3) The assignment of instructional leadership roles, including the
responsibility for conducting evaluations under IC 20-28-11.5.
(4) The academic needs of students in the school corporation,
including employment in a high need area such as those identified
under IC 20-29-3-15(b)(27). This factor may not account for less
than ten percent (10%) of the calculation used to determine a
teacher's increase or increment.
(c) To provide greater flexibility and options, a school corporation
may further differentiate the amount of salary increases or increments
determined for teachers. A school corporation shall base a
differentiated amount under this subsection on reasons the school
corporation determines are appropriate, which may include the:
(1) subject or subjects taught by a given teacher;
(2) importance of retaining a given teacher at the school
corporation;
(3) need to attract an individual with specific qualifications to fill
a teaching vacancy; and
(4) offering of a new program or class.
(d) A school corporation may provide differentiated increases or
increments under subsection (b), and in excess of the percentage
specified in subsection (b)(1), in order to:
(1) reduce the gap between the school corporation's minimum
teacher salary and the average of the school corporation's
minimum and maximum teacher salaries; or
(2) allow teachers currently employed by the school corporation
to receive a salary adjusted in comparison to starting base salaries
of new teachers.
(e) A school corporation shall differentiate the amount of salary
increases or increments for teachers who possess a required literacy
endorsement under IC 20-28-5-19.7.
(f) The Indiana education employment relations board established
in IC 20-29-3-1 shall publish a model compensation plan with a model
salary range that a school corporation may adopt.
(g) Each school corporation shall submit its local compensation plan
to the Indiana education employment relations board. A local
compensation plan must specify the range for teacher salaries. The
Indiana education employment relations board shall publish the local
compensation plans on the Indiana education employment relations
board's website.
(h) The Indiana education employment relations board shall review
a compensation plan for compliance with this section as part of its
review under IC 20-29-6-6.1. The Indiana education employment
relations board has jurisdiction to determine compliance of a
compensation plan submitted under this section.
(i) This chapter may not be construed to require or allow a school
corporation to decrease the salary of any teacher below the salary the
teacher was earning on or before July 1, 2015, if that decrease would
be made solely to conform to the new compensation plan.
(j) After June 30, 2011, all rights, duties, or obligations established
under IC 20-28-9-1 before its repeal are considered rights, duties, or
obligations under this section.
(k) An employment agreement described in IC 20-28-6-7.3 between
an adjunct teacher and a school corporation is not subject to this
section.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.286-2013, SEC.90. Amended by P.L.213-2015, SEC.179; P.L.106-2016, SEC.10; P.L.216-2017, SEC.2; P.L.228-2017, SEC.3; P.L.170-2018, SEC.4; P.L.191-2018, SEC.11; P.L.215-2018(ss), SEC.9; P.L.118-2019, SEC.1; P.L.143-2019, SEC.21; P.L.211-2019, SEC.23; P.L.216-2021, SEC.22; P.L.134-2022, SEC.2; P.L.168-2022, SEC.15; P.L.178-2022(ts), SEC.13; P.L.170-2023, SEC.17; P.L.200-2023, SEC.15; P.L.243-2023, SEC.14; P.L.75-2025, SEC.1; P.L.214-2025, SEC.123.