Improving Salaries

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28481, 10 January 1958, Page 15

Improving Salaries

Of the material rewards of teaching, the financial one is by no means unimportant, and few people are aware of the improvements that have been made in teachers’ salaries in recent years. The current ones, given here, will soon be replaced by further improvements to the scales of pay.

Students receive £270 a year while studying at teachers’ college, and £415 during their third year of training, either as a probationary assistant working with a small class in a school, or as a third year specialist student at college. An additional payment of £55 a year is paid to students who are obliged to live away from home. Salaries payable to men on completion of training range from £570 in their first year of service to £960 in their eleventh year. Women receive only a

little less than this, but these are the minimum rates, and do not take into account the additional payments made for work in positions of responsibility. For example, a young man with eight years of sesrvice receives £960 as teacher in charge of a sole or two teacher school, and after 11 years of service he would receive £llO5 as first assistant in a large school. Senior women assistants and infant mistresses with similar service receive £1025.

At the top end of the scale, headmasters of large primary schools are paid nearly £l4OO a year, with headmasters of intermediate and normal schools receiving still higher salaries. ' In addition to these rates,' eligible men receive £62 10s a year married - allowance, and all teachers who hold a university degree or equivalent qualifications are paid a qualification allowance ranging from £lO to £3O a year.