Four in ten teachers will benefit from an inflation-busting pay rise of nearly 16 per cent this year thanks to ‘progression pay’, the Education Secretary said yesterday.
Gillian Keegan reminded union bosses that, like other public sector workers, the majority of teachers in the first years of their career will be eligible for salary progression on top of the annual pay uplifts.
It means teachers – who on average earn £39,500 - could receive a pay rise of between £3,984 and £5,264, figures from the Department for Education (DfE) suggest.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4 yesterday, Mrs Keegan said: ‘Forty per cent of classroom teachers also will get progression pay, meaning that this year 40 per cent will get up to 15.9 per cent. And of course, that’s on top of a package which includes 23 per cent employer contributory pension.
