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Educator Pay Plan 2026 Signed

On September 18, 2026, Governor Lourdes A. Leon Guerrero approved the 2026 Educator Pay Plan. The Department of Administration recommended the update after comparing GDOE salaries with national averages.

What the plan does:

• Teachers and related positions (pay grades ED-1A through ED-7) receive a 15% increase to the salary schedule. This covers Teacher I-A through Teacher VI, School Program Consultants, Vocational Instructors, Head Start Teachers, and the Head Start Program Assistant Director.

• Principals and assistant principals (pay grades ED-8 through ED-11) receive a 5% increase to the salary schedule. This also covers the Head Start Program Director and the Chamorro Studies Administrator. Principals keep their 15% pay differential, and assistant principals keep their 10% differential.

• Placement is step-to-step. You keep your current step and move to the same step on the new schedule.

The approval does not state an effective date. In 2022, the Governor set the effective date as the start of the next pay period after she signed. GFT will ask DOA and GDOE to follow the practice that employees will receive the new rate for all work effective on the date the document was signed, September 18, 2026.