Learn the details of HIDOE’s salary structures and bonus offerings, teacher retirement plan and pension fund, health benefits, service and incentive awards, tax deferred programs and tax-sheltered annuities, and an array of other support services. If you have any questions, please email us at Teacher.Recruitment@k12.hi.us or call us at (808) 441-8444.
Salary Information:
The collective bargaining contract establishes the annual salary rates for new teachers. Review the Teachers’ Salary Schedule for SY 2025-2026 for more information.
A list of Doctorate degree titles recognized by the Hawaii State Department of Education for Class VII can be found here.
Please refer to our full Teacher Salary Schedule for the 2025-2026 School Year:
Salary Differentials:
Shortage differentials for Hawaii licensed classroom teachers in Special Education ($10,000), Hard-to-Staff Locations ($3,000-$8,000) and Hawaiian Language Immersion Programs ($8,000) will continue through school year 2025-2026. You can read how you can qualify by reading the Continuation of Classroom Teacher Shortage Differentials for SY 2025-2026 Memo.
A list of hard-to-staff school locations where differentials are provided to Hawaii licensed educators can be found here.
Benefits:
In addition to providing important services to the education of our children, employment with the Department has many benefits including 18 days of paid leave, paid holidays, health plans and a pension plan. Our benefits brochure is available here.
HIDOE-HSTA Collective Bargaining Agreement:
The exclusive representative for teachers, counselors and librarians (Unit 05) is the Hawaii State Teachers Association. The Collective Bargaining Agreement (teacher contract) for school years 2023-2027 has been reached and provides teachers a 14.5% raise over 4 years in addition to a new Class 8 on the salary schedule
