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Teachers: Pay

Volume 480: debated on Wednesday 8 October 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) what the average annual earnings of a supply teacher in (a) England, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) Wakefield District were in the latest period for which figures are available. (223780)

(2) what the average income of a first year teacher in (a) England, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) Wakefield District was in the last year for which figures are available.

Information on the average annual earnings of supply teachers is not collected centrally.

The available information on the average income of a first year teacher in (a) England, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber is contained within Table B4:

http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000743/Addition_B_DOU.xls

of the Statistical First Release (SFR) “School Workforce in England (including pupil: teacher ratios and pupil: adult ratios), January 2007 (Revised)”. Figures for Wakefield district are not available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the average income of a teacher on the M6 pay scale in (a) England, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) Wakefield District was in the last year for which figures are available. (223782)

The following table provides the average gross salary, including all additional allowances, of full-time regular qualified teachers on scale point six of the main classroom teachers pay scale (M6) in local authority maintained schools in England, Yorkshire and the Humber Government Office Region (GOR) and Wakefield local authority in March 2006, the latest information available.

Average salary of full-time regular teachers1 in local authority maintained schools on scale point M6, March 20062

£

England3

28,920

Yorkshire and the Humber GOR

28,180

28,380

1 Included are teachers for whom there is sufficient information on the components of their salary to match exactly their basic salary with the scale point M6. For 17 per cent. of teachers we are unable to perform this matching.

2 Provisional.

3 Includes teachers on the London main classroom pay scales.

Source:

Database of Teacher Records